A lot has changed in the almost 2 years since that post.
Have you considered switching to the FSRS scheduling algorithm, so that you don’t have to worry about Ease at all? It’s easy to setup and available on all platforms – see Deck Options - Anki Manual and fsrs4anki/docs/tutorial.md at main · open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki · GitHub.
[For reference, that post]