Ergonomically switching between i915→Xe GPU kernel modules on Linux

[tranquil falcon]

Debian Trixie (+backported kernel 6.17.13) user here, i'm looking to mess about with my arc drivers after encountering some faces failing to render in a particularly obscure game (←besides the point)
i noticed both i915 and xe are shown as available here. considering the preliminary steps outlined in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Testing_the_new_experimental_Xe_driver; i'd rather not start poking files in /sys/ as, to my recollection, it would be the first time in ~3 years of me daily driving debian of me doing so. (and i don't really want to chroot if things go wrong)
is there a less janky way, chiefly involving modprobe?

a basic modprobe xe returns without issue, of course, but doing so with no running display manager doesn't seem to impact anything (as i915 is still the only "Kernel driver in use") (i cannot modprobe -r i915 as "i915 is in use")