does it replace 'hacks' (as in tips or advice, not crap 'journalists' or the violent verb), which I thoroughly detest, or do we get the diabolical double of haxx-maxxing?

Maxxing-maxxing!
Behind the Bastards was right, weird online incels do have a disproportionate influence on pop culture language.

axing-maxxing...for when the guillotines make their ambivalent return

Arsehole-maxxing

When governments around the world started brutally scandalmogging their predecessors no amount of gatesuffixmaxxing was going to be sufficient

We're still going strong with that one in our house - our side gate got blown down in a storm and we called it Gategate. It was so satisfying.