No, the high action is not due to a relief issue. I have never owned a PRS guitar where the neck moved that much and I have owned PRS guitars since 1995. In fact, I am fairly certain that PRS would be surprised if the neck moved that much. It is definitely a function of the bridge saddle height, which is pretty high for a PRS guitar. I have never seen or owned a made in the USA PRS guitar with such a high action from the factory. It has been that way since I purchased it in early 2000. I doubt that Chuck Levin's messed with it because they are store at which Paul cut his luthiery teeth; therefore, there is a lot of respect for Paul and the people that work with him. What has me worried is that the guitar was not setup with the standard PRS action for a reason. My 2009 Mira Korina has kept a PTC-level setup for almost a decade. My 2011 McCarty 58 is still perfectly setup. My 2011 one-off CU24 with a wide-thin neck was rock solid and so was my 1995 Standard 24. PRS necks do not move. It is the cheap SE hardware that has been used on the CE24 model since 2016 that is part of the problem. I am not ruling out the scarf-joined neck, but PRS knows how to make a stable neck, scarf-joined or not. The Korean-made trem is a big step down from the first, second, or third generation made in USA PRS trems. Anyone who does recognize that difference is delusional. I have never had the ball end of a string stick in an American-made PRS trem. That is a common ocurrence in the Korean-made PRS trem.