Also tested here on the 2020308 tarball and used the 6 plugins with expected results. Although I did not time it, most likely it built faster which is beneficial -- only using the plugins anyway. Will check in to GIT next time boot the desktop. (Andrew, it must have been quite a challenge to determine which modules of OpenCV actually contained the plugins!).
I did not get the downloaded 4.8.0 opencv to work, but I did not try very hard. I did try to peruse the Changelog for OpenCV and found no obvious changes listed for the 6 plugins although I could have missed it. I have to start testing the HDR patches that Andrea has been testing.