Hi hopefulforlatex,
Thanks for taking the time to share your comments and experience … I appreciate it.
Congratulations on your new mattress
You certainly made a great quality/value choice and I’m looking forward to your comments and feedback once you’ve received it and have had the chance to sleep on it for a bit.
What you were experimenting was a type of zoning. Zoning isn’t as important with latex as it would be with other types of materials or components (see post #7 here) but having said that … even with latex zoning systems can sometimes be useful and worth considering for people that have more difficulty finding a mattress with the right “balance” between comfort/pressure relief (under the shoulders especially) and support/alignment (under the hips/pelvis especially) or who have more challenging circumstances or sensitivities, body types that are more difficult to “match” to a mattress, more complex medical issues, or who have a history of having more difficulty in finding a mattress that works well for them.
There is more about zoning in this article and in post #11 here and the additional posts it links to that may be helpful.
Phoenix