Quite a clear asymmetry, lean in outsides. And the engine doesn’t really react but stays lean during longer maneuvres, like 8’s. Sounds like a poor thermal balance. L
The asymmetry is something we fought on any number of schneurle engines over the decades. I have no specific information but just from the reaction I would guess he has a stock-like venturi (asymmetry) and is trying to deal with it by softening it by lowering the compression (delay in returning to a 4-stroke). That's not a thermal issue, it is a classic "low compression" symptom, and the fact that going hard lean in outsides and not pile-driving him into the ground also suggests low compression. Lower it enough and it will go lean and stay lean till it runs out - the classic runaway.
I know what I would try to adjust it, maybe it would work, but Dan probably knows what to do and this is what he wound up with.
Brett