Seems like the dev keeps dodging the question on the miner manipulating the settings on its own for the devs benefit regardless of what we set. I'd like to hear answers to the questions.
The miner does not change any overclocking settings. Current algorithms have different power consumption and require individual overclock settings from the user. We have compensated for that in v0.7.0. And If you are using Phi2 or Lyra2z, the miner will not switch to another algorithm on the devfee session. Apologies!