Dude the extra money is like 100x the cost of the DTV visa. Application for DTV is not that hard, if you really want to avoid a hassle, you can pay some agency to do DTV for you it still will be 50x cheaper then Elite
Why do all people have problems with paying taxes in Thailand, I pay taxes here but because of that I don't need to pay my personal taxes in my home country. If you are a digital nomad and most of your income is salary it's very often even better to pay taxes here and not in your country