Debug tool with Quest Link not working?

so i tried the debug tool - changing pixel density and going for the supersampling .... and i did the performance overlay... nope. nothing. when i'm in the HOME and i tried some games... no overlay comes up and also no change in settings. i've tried even setting it to really horrible values to see if any effect.. .nothing. (is there a hotkey i'm supposed to press?)

anyone else experiencing this? i'm on the latest builds of oculus software and drivers. i'm using an nvidia rtx 2080

also - i do get a splash screen really quick when i start the oculus software that says "your hardware is not compatible with this version of Oculus"... but then goes away real quick... i had to do an OBS recording to catch it... it's literally a split second.... and everything seems to work as far as Link functionality.

anyone else experiencing this? any suggestions? (i did try on 2 pc's... one with an rtx2080 and one with a GTX 1660 ... same result)

i'm running the latest builds oculus v. 12.0

EDIT - please disregard. i didn't realize there's a community forum where i should be posting this.  and i can't seem to delete....