over the manually selected results. We highlight this deviation between DVS and hand selected active spaces as a possible measure of bias introduced when hand selecting active spaces. However, we find that multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT) using the tPBE and tPBE0 functionals is roughly 0.15 eV less accurate than NEVPT2 across this class of diatomic systems, potentially accounting for the decreased performance of DVS-APC, which uses MC-PDFT energies to select between active spaces. We also showcase an ability to "down-sample" the DVS-APC wave functions using natural orbital occupancies to achieve smaller minimal active spaces which retain the accuracy of the larger starting active spaces. Finally, DVS-APC and tPBE0 are proven to be effective when applied to modeling excited states in two larger transition metal complexes, suggesting that the transition metal diatomics may be a particular outstanding challenge for DVS-APC and MC-PDFT approaches.