Hi Maven,
I guess your incandescence is bit too high…its blowing up the highlights too much …may be that’s why you don’t see the effect of texture opacity.
try putting it down or turn it off for a check & once you are happy with the frequency …you can turn it back ON.
Do tweak the ratio parameter as it’s a combination of both Texture Frequency ratio & Frequency.
For Non texture cheat what I prefer to do is to scale the transform Scale attribute of Fluid node to lower value keeping auto - resize ON. In this way the resolution is gonna get finer but the frequency of swirl & noise pattern gonna scale down without affecting the motion much.
Hope this helps !
Best,