Been asked a few time before. RMerlin (developer of the Asus-Merlin firmware) responded this way to such a question.Would backing up the settings, perform the factory reset, and restore the settings work, keeping their enhanced security updates?
Reloading that config will completely overwrite the changes done by the factory default reset. So you'd be back to the same point as before.
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