DeeDubb
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If you mean do EO right at the beginning of the solve, it's been proposed to death, but the eventual conclusion is that it's not a very good method, since you have to plan out EO at the beginning instead of planning out the first block, which means that you have to build your first block unplanned, which can slow you down. Additionally, you lose M slice pairing and F moves, both of which are extremely useful in Roux.
Yes, all of this...
Even if I could choose between having EO already done before I start vs. random scramble, I would do random scramble, because in the process of trying to preserve EO, my F2B movecounts would be high, plus you would have to do COLL instead of CMLL to avoid messing up EO, so I think the movecount would be higher PLUS the moves it took to do EO in the first place.