So I've never had problems with my stock extruder so I guess I just never paid much attention to this component. But I just started having some minor extrusion issues so I went to print this common upgrade for CR-series printers that is placed in between the extruder spring and tension base to compress the spring more.

Well then I saw this piece sitting uselessly inside the spring and realized what it was. It's an upgraded version of the community upgrade, threaded on the inside so the screw can thread into it and extend from the end of the screw as much as desired therefore compressing the spring as much as desired.

So freaking like Creality to include a minor upgrade that isn't mentioned anywhere in any literature and installed so it's not even doing anything. Just wanted to share this ridiculousness.