@TCF_Namelecc I just want to point out that Stockfish evaluation value of starting position in this variant may be absolutely off/irrelevant here for several reasons.
1. Stockfish is programmed for standard chess, meaning relative piece values are tuned to death for standard chess where you have only one queen in opening phase and sometimes 2 in rare endgames. In this variant you have lots of queens in the opening, causing it clearly has different relative value here. Same for other pieces.
2. Humans are not machines. Even top GMs cant play variants on engine level. I mean lots of unbalanced variants (by engine eval) are playable by humans. Just look at antichess, atomic, zh!
3. White Win vs Black Win rates:
54% vs 45% in latest huge upside down tournament
lichess.org/tournament/teSmrRnx54% vs 43% in Atomic Shield Arena
lichess.org/tournament/Gxv583E6