I think this is the same as the bug I recently filed, maybe these should be merged? https://developer.blender.org/T73863 Haven't tried DAE though. I described the fix you tried and why it doesn't generally work.

Thanks for acknowledging this issue, hopefully someone takes a look at it soon! If I get some time, I might see if I can get involved, though I'd specifically want to work on this problem.

I'm having the exact same issue in 2.81, and this is definitely a bug, since the checkboxes don't appear to be doing what they say they do. If it's not possible to fix this, then perhaps the checkboxes should be removed? In any case, please re-open this issue.

Are we still taking requests? If so...

Alright, that makes sense I suppose. Can we put this on a feature request list or something? I feel like this is an important issue that affects Blender’s usability, and should be addressed at some point. It really makes animating a subsurfed rig more of a headache, and I believe other software actually supports this.

Hmm, well my file was failing for 2.81, so either it’s a separate issue after all, or something else about 2.81 is obfuscating the issue for only the other file.

Any ETA on GPU acceleration for OpenSubdiv? Animation with subsurf in 2.81 appears to be very slow.

I've gotten this issue multiple times now, on Blender 2.81. Didn't get a message on crash, was instantaneous on undo/redo (can't remember which one), and not seeing a log in a "temp" folder, either in C:\ or C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Temp. Attached my "system info" file. It's worth mentioning I do occasionally get script errors during undo/redo, I'll try to watch for them next time it happens (I assumed they were logged, but I can't find a log.)