V3 SE movements and quality help

Hello

So I have had my printer a while and always struggled with moveable parts, layers fusing, and sometimes even initial layer adhesion so I was hoping people could provide some advice.

So far the things I have done to make improvements -

Regularly checking levels

Reduced acceleration on the printer (1500 - 1500 - 500 - 3000)

Calibrated e-steps

Used different slicers (currently orca)

Changed acceleration settings in slicer

Changed flow rate to 90 in slicer.

One issue I find is no matter how many times I reduce the acceleration on the printer, after a print it returns to higher settings, even after storing the config etc. This makes me think that the speed is being hijacked somewhere and not actually printing with reduced acceleration. As previously mentioned I changed the acceleration to 1500 - 1500 - 500 - 3000, but it regularly returns to 2500 - 2500 - 500 - 5000 (if that makes sense)

Any tips would be appreciated

I also regularly use a filament drier

Photos Of the finishes I’m getting