Yes. That, and I have realized I made some mistakes in the past. I have over 600gb of freeware scenery and about 250gb+ of payware scenery. I use Addon Linker and only use where I am generally flying to and from.
Ever since I stopped using the “We Love VFR and Solar/PowerLines” mods, I no longer have performance degradation or CTD’s.
Doing this and resetting my NVIDIA CP helped a lot.
There is too much garbage advice out there.