Out of curiosity I looked at the 2022 trim builds on the Mazda USA site to see which matches up to my 2020 Touring AWD without the Preferred Package, evidently unchanged in 2021. The decrease in MSPR is pretty interesting.
The key features that drew me to the Touring over the Sport were the seats (faux leather, heated, six-way power driver's) and the auto climate control.
With all US models now AWD standard, the 2022 2.5 S Select is the comparable to my (and the 2021) Touring without the preferred package. There might be some minor differences in the 2022 but they are not evident on the build page. The seats and climate control again jump out as what you got in stepping up from S to S Select as with stepping up from old Sport to Touring.
The 2021 Touring AWD without the Preferred Package, a paint upgrade or any other add-on was $29,735 including destination. Unless I'm missing something, the comparable (or identical?) 2022 2.5 S Select is $29,125, a $610 price cut from the comparable Touring.
This would indicate that going to AWD standard yielded cost saving with some of it passed through to the MSRP. Of course what you end up paying in this environment is a whole other matter.