I was going to reference my last run in with modifications of the database (topic 58905 appears deleted to me, so I can’t) . but the short story was that a database modification I did 2+ years ago bit me when it prevented a restore to a new host.
It took about 2 hours of figuring out what happened, altering the backup to remove the edit, & recompressing it so it would restore.
So yeah, I’m with Matt, think of the kittens, probably best not to mess with the database.