After setting the actor migration to write-both/read-new on group 1, I noticed an increase in slow queries resembling
SELECT /* ApiQueryLogEvents::execute */ log_id,log_type,log_action,log_timestamp,log_deleted,page_id,log_page,actor_log_user.actor_user AS `log_user`,actor_log_user.actor_name AS `log_user_text`,log_actor,user_name,log_namespace,log_title,log_params,comment_log_comment.comment_text AS `log_comment_text`,comment_log_comment.comment_data AS `log_comment_data`,comment_log_comment.comment_id AS `log_comment_cid`,(SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ctd_name SEPARATOR ',') FROM `change_tag` JOIN `change_tag_def` ON ((ct_tag_id=ctd_id)) WHERE ct_log_id=log_id ) AS `ts_tags` FROM `logging` JOIN `actor` `actor_log_user` ON ((actor_log_user.actor_id = log_actor)) LEFT JOIN `user` ON ((user_id=actor_log_user.actor_user)) LEFT JOIN `page` ON ((log_namespace=page_namespace) AND (log_title=page_title)) JOIN `comment` `comment_log_comment` ON ((comment_log_comment.comment_id = log_comment_id)) WHERE (log_type NOT IN ('spamblacklist','titleblacklist','abusefilterprivatedetails','suppress')) ORDER BY log_timestamp DESC,log_id DESC LIMIT 501