diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 756d2fc64d..39d9acb2e4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Changes:
 - Add codec support for specialized `Option<bool>`
 - Optimization for `createClass` with shortcut typeDef creation
 - Optimization of `registry.getOrUnknown` with lookup cache
+- Optimization of Array allocations in decoding
+- Use `compactFromU8aLim` & `u8aConcatStrict` variants
+- Adjust `.inspect()` for `ExtrinsicPayload`
 - Adjust Kusama `StakingLedger` for runtime 1051
 
 
diff --git a/packages/types-codec/src/extended/Bytes.ts b/packages/types-codec/src/extended/Bytes.ts
index 2667a3859b..2587bdcc7f 100644
--- a/packages/types-codec/src/extended/Bytes.ts
+++ b/packages/types-codec/src/extended/Bytes.ts
@@ -54,13 +54,15 @@ export class Bytes extends Raw {
   /**
    * @description Returns a breakdown of the hex encoding for this Codec
    */
-  override inspect (): Inspect {
+  override inspect (isBare?: boolean): Inspect {
     const clength = compactToU8a(this.length);
 
     return {
-      outer: this.length
-        ? [clength, super.toU8a()]
-        : [clength]
+      outer: isBare
+        ? [super.toU8a()]
+        : this.length
+          ? [clength, super.toU8a()]
+          : [clength]
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/types-codec/src/native/Struct.ts b/packages/types-codec/src/native/Struct.ts
index 18e3a57865..cf01968b21 100644
--- a/packages/types-codec/src/native/Struct.ts
+++ b/packages/types-codec/src/native/Struct.ts
@@ -231,12 +231,16 @@ export class Struct<
   /**
    * @description Returns a breakdown of the hex encoding for this Codec
    */
-  inspect (): Inspect {
+  inspect (isBare?: BareOpts): Inspect {
     const inner = new Array<Inspect>();
 
     for (const [k, v] of this.entries()) {
       inner.push({
-        ...v.inspect(),
+        ...v.inspect(
+          !isBare || isBoolean(isBare)
+            ? isBare
+            : isBare[k]
+        ),
         name: stringCamelCase(k as string)
       });
     }
diff --git a/packages/types-codec/src/types/codec.ts b/packages/types-codec/src/types/codec.ts
index 213519cb31..fea96002ce 100644
--- a/packages/types-codec/src/types/codec.ts
+++ b/packages/types-codec/src/types/codec.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ export interface Codec {
   /**
    * @description Returns a breakdown of the hex encoding for this Codec
    */
-  inspect (): Inspect;
+  inspect (isBare?: BareOpts): Inspect;
 
   /**
    * @description Returns a hex string representation of the value. isLe returns a LE (number-only) representation
diff --git a/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.spec.ts b/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d7a66f6810
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+// Copyright 2017-2022 @polkadot/types authors & contributors
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+import rpcMetadata from '@polkadot/types-support/metadata/static-substrate';
+
+import { TypeRegistry } from '../../create';
+import { decorateExtrinsics, Metadata } from '../../metadata';
+import { GenericExtrinsicPayloadV4 as ExtrinsicPayload } from '.';
+
+const registry = new TypeRegistry();
+const metadata = new Metadata(registry, rpcMetadata);
+
+registry.setMetadata(metadata);
+
+const tx = decorateExtrinsics(registry, metadata.asLatest, metadata.version);
+
+describe('ExtrinsicPayload', (): void => {
+  it('has a sane inspect', (): void => {
+    // we don't expect this to fail, however it is actually a good
+    // reference for the ordering in base Substrate
+    expect(new ExtrinsicPayload(registry, { method: tx.timestamp.set(0).toHex() } as never).inspect()).toEqual({
+      inner: [
+        { name: 'method', outer: [new Uint8Array([3, 0, 0])] },
+        { name: 'era', outer: [new Uint8Array([0]), new Uint8Array([0])] },
+        { name: 'nonce', outer: [new Uint8Array([0])] },
+        { name: 'tip', outer: [new Uint8Array([0])] },
+        { name: 'assetId', outer: [new Uint8Array([0])] },
+        { name: 'specVersion', outer: [new Uint8Array([0, 0, 0, 0])] },
+        { name: 'transactionVersion', outer: [new Uint8Array([0, 0, 0, 0])] },
+        { name: 'genesisHash', outer: [new Uint8Array(32)] },
+        { name: 'blockHash', outer: [new Uint8Array(32)] }
+      ]
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.ts b/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.ts
index de6a7c9a3c..c4363d0f03 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/extrinsic/v4/ExtrinsicPayload.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
 import type { SignOptions } from '@polkadot/keyring/types';
-import type { Registry } from '@polkadot/types-codec/types';
+import type { Inspect, Registry } from '@polkadot/types-codec/types';
 import type { HexString } from '@polkadot/util/types';
 import type { ExtrinsicEra } from '../../interfaces/extrinsics';
 import type { Hash } from '../../interfaces/runtime';
@@ -37,6 +37,13 @@ export class GenericExtrinsicPayloadV4 extends Struct {
     };
   }
 
+  /**
+   * @description Returns a breakdown of the hex encoding for this Codec
+   */
+  public override inspect (): Inspect {
+    return super.inspect({ method: true });
+  }
+
   /**
    * @description The block [[Hash]] the signature applies to (mortal/immortal)
    */