Wow, thanks @amoser for sharing. That’s a really smart way to solve it! I’ll give it a try as soon as I can come back to this. I had not noticed what you are mentioning about the slight out of focus vs. fully out of focus components. My experience was either no blur or full screen blur, depending on camera focus. But focus distance seemed totally broken as well. So I definitely missed something.
Long term, my hope would be that either a)Epic chooses to solve this problem themselves, or b)They simply give us back the legacy Circle DOF mode as an option. I’m guessing that will probably happen before a major studio releases an Xbox One game with 4.23 or higher LOL 