Can't modify a lamdba hook once it's been created, however if you named it via defun you can redeclare it with new behaviour or remove it from the advice list.

Try setting package-user-dir to the elpa directory.

Could potentially add it to the pull interface:

  (transient-append-suffix 'magit-pull "-r" '("-R" "No rebase" "--no-rebase"))

(positions it under the rebase flag -r)

They moved to using develop as a rolling release

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11191 https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/11352