When we were on E9 we could easily turn off all bpms for testing on our development database by changing the name of the bpm folder. It was a terrific way to check whether a bug had anything to do with our bpms.
Is there any suggested “easy-ish” way to turn off bpms in one fell swoop? If not, is there any suggested means of doing it rather than going through each method directive, data directive individually?
That is a good question and I would disable in the web config for each application server instance. I have not tested that setting with multiple app servers but I am guessing it is specific to just that application server