Hi,
That's some great troubleshooting, thanks for letting us know.
As for the question "How do I see if Hyper-V was removed".
VMTN user BlueFirestorm has an answer for that here:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/MikroTik-RouterOS-boot-speed-is-drastically...
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Wil