These cars are not about "fast" or "slow" for me, but rather how they feel, and how they make me feel, while driving them, or, for that matter, just looking at them.
"Fast", vis-a-vis the ubiquitous family car comparison, is an objective entry on a road test statistics page.
Feel is subjective. It's the reason I don't drive family cars, or, perhaps more accurately, it's the reason I choose to drive an E39 M5 versus the faster Tesla Model 3.
The fact of the matter is that weight is the enemy of both objective performance and subjective feel. It's ok if you don't want a "Sports Purpose" feel, some people are more touring / luxury oriented.
Take a look at recent 3.2 Carrera Club Sport driving impressions like this one...
https://www.instagram.com/p/CUaAzT8sBNY
"This could possibly be the best driving 911 to come out of the 1980s."
Or this one...
https://www.goodwood.com/grr/road/news/2021/10/chris-harriss-clubsport-changed-my-mind-on-the-best-911--thank-frankel-its-friday/
"It was so agile, so communicative and so pure."
The Club Sport has some additional power, but it's most important ingredient is the ~2,580 pound curb weight.
I have spent time speaking with the OP. My sense is that the changes he's made to his car lean more towards Sports Purpose than ease of defogging (which BTW...
https://www.amazon.com/Rain-X-630046-Interior-Glass-Anti-Fog/dp/B00T9LR9FA). Hence, my recommendation to jettison his non-functioning AC in this instance.
I see (and live) both sides of this The Right Tool for the Job / Different Horses for Different Courses debate. It's the reason my '87 is wife-friendly with rubber suspension bushings, heat and killer AC and my '89 is a Sports Purpose wife-unfriendly car with GT3 muffler, spherical suspension bearings, big torsion bars and devoid of: heat, AC, radio, sunroof, etc.
If you have one air cooled 911 to play with, you may have to make some performance vs. luxury compromises. Regardless, get out and enjoy the drive in these wonderful machines, whether you're sipping cappuccino at C&C with friends Saturday morning or attacking canyons at dawn on Sunday, or... both.