Prerequisites
Issue
In $__handleSave() we have the following:
if (this.$isNew) {
// send entire doc
const obj = this.toObject(saveToObjectOptions);
However, if minimize: false, we don't need to run toObject(), we can just do const obj = this._doc because the MongoDB driver will clone and apply toBSON() anyway. This should significantly help performance.
Re: #8024, let's implement this functionality first and make sure it works as intended before considering making minimize default to false.