I am in the process of same rebuild- twin i/o to bracket and likely single outboard. Its all about preferences. Most prefer to move away from i/os it seems but plenty like them as well.
I went from the front on my transom, cut the stringers back several inches, cut cap just fwd of hawse pipes to open up the top.
Recommend digging/ reading a little with seaches on this site to make sure of your plan before you get the saw out - should be several examples of 23 rebuilds -sceptre and cc and hopefully still some good photos - lot of good info.
Good luck !
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