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I think everyone got hanged up on the too powerful bit where what I really want to focus on is improving the feel. Thicker, stiffer strings would decrease feel, not what I want.
Thanks for helping out, to avoid confusion, I don't want to decrease the power, I want to increase the feel without changing the power.
To be more precise, I want to increase feel and am ok with less power but not with more.
People decrease the power all the time, main reason for that is that as your strokes get better you will get stronger and more powerful shots, the more power you can generate less you'll depend on the power coming from the racquet, when I was growing up my coach would then string it tighter and tighter and then switch up the racket to a less powerful and so on, that's how I progressed in tennis, hope this helps clarify why I am ok with less power coming from the racket but not more.
The most obvious way to reduce Depth Potential and increase the feel is to move to a softer frame or a lighter frame with a smaller hoop size.
(Moving to a shorter frame, eg. 26.5 inch or even 26 inch, will also achieve those characteristics but is usually impractical for most decent adult players.)
Using soft multifilament strings or natural gut strings at very high tensions might also help your existing frame. But if there is little feel in the frame to begin with, altering the string config. isn't going to help much imho.