When you set the shadow quality to medium or high, it drops FPS significantly, but for some reason you get more FPS while using Ultra quality shadows. (Play the Xbox preview version of bedrock to see the FPS difference between Medium, High, and Ultra.
I'll send the examples along with gameplay footage in a few hours when I have the time.
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