If you think it is not restrictive you don't flow enough air.....LOL.... I will tell you this, if you tow heavy a lot, getting rid of that CCV block it will drop the EGT's a little since the air flows much better. Plus the oil is not blowing the intercooler boots at 23psi pulling grades.
Do some dynamic flow testing on the system with and without the CCV POS restriction in it. All I can tell you is my truck flows 1770cfm through the filter heading into the turbo under full boost. Anything in the way will restrict that much air flow so I don't want anything in the way. That is just my $.02 worth on that.