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Supposedly the more minimal shifter is the 'pro' version but as far as I can tell that's more to do with the material used for the internals.
We sell a lot of Enviolo Bosch bikes at my shop and the issue of cables getting mangled in the shifter is most often traced to the lines being under-tensioned either because of drag in the housing due to dumb routing/not replacing it often enough, or someone forgets to set the barrel adjusters after reinstalling the rear wheel or a total loss of tension after the cable fails at the overdrive pinch bolt due to repeated shifting under-load. That cable tends to fray one strand at a time, the strands get pulled up into the housing near the hub and it cascades from there.
I link the CVT concept a lot, but I'm not a fan of the quality of Enviolo. We've warrantied a number of hubs that have failed within the first 5,000mi/8000km and the fact that they're not very serviceable irks me quite a bit.