Teach me guys.
I'm seeing it opposite from reading Bell's Book. I likely have it backwards.
Smaller case and less intake duration SHOULD cause higher case pressure enabling one to run a physically lower transfer (numerically higher). More intake duration should cause less case pressure and subsequently the need for physically higher transfers.
You guys know way more than me, that's for sure. I see the back filling as being an issue.
When I read about it, the real world experiences were with dirt bikes and not saws, but piston ported 2-strokes nonetheless. Regardless of exhaust height, they found that smaller cases caused so much transfer pressure that it was pushing unburned mix out of the exhaust. They started lowering the uppers to stop that from occurring.
Sounds like the transfers should work wherever they are cut then. Too high and they'll back stuff till they are ready, too low and they'll make more pressure and do more. Why move them at all?