What I'm saying is from the operator's perspective, I can go to System Preference and then select Software Update to see if there's any OS updates available to select and update my computer.I'm a bit puzzled: as far as I know our Retina 15-inch rMBP's @ 10,1 (mid-2012 and early-2013) are unsupported for Big Sur. So technically your device is not natively supported unless you mean you are able to have OTA system updates by virtue of OCLP????
I am still on 11.3.1 so I can't verify your noticing faster performance yet. It sounds tempting to upgrade, so thanks!
Curious: what aspects seem snappier? Startup ... opening certain apps ... download times ... etc.?
Since using OCLP which I stated, I have been able to update the OS on my computer thru Software Update in System Preference just like I normally would if this computer was natively supported.
As for snappier performance, I have noticed Safari coming up faster than I usually have been seeing it come up with web pages refreshing faster. I'm seeing snappier performance with any app I'm running or when opening up a finder window everything seems to come up alittle faster than before the OS update.
This is just an observation of overall performance of my laptop running OS 11.5 beta software as compared to 11.4 beta I was running earlier today before this update.