If you have no freeplay at all, try loosening the tension on the cable. Too tight will make it slip, because that's like having a certain amount of pull started on it before you pull it.

First - Adjust the cable as shown in the video.....you need some slack in the cable and the "free play" as described and demonstrated with the two nickels.  You can make this adjustment using the adjuster up at the lever on the handlebars.....or if needed with the two nuts at the bottom end of the cable.

Second - then look at the position of the chrome lever down on the engine.  If it is even or higher than the upper mark on the black case, then you need to install a shorter rod inside the clutch.

Ok so I’ve got about two nickel widths on my lever right now but the arm hasn’t moved much it seems.  I’ll have to fire it up and see where it feels like it grabbing

It seems to me that you need to change the throwout rod.

Part #22 in the diagram.  Your choice of 3 lengths (44.5mm, 45.5mm, 46.5mm).

https://www.partzilla.com/catalog/suzuki/motorcycle/2005/boulevard-s40-ls650/...

Where do you want/expect the clutch friction zone to begin?  If engagement begins 3/4 of the way from the handlebar grip (beginning of the friction zone) AND the clutch fully engages by the time you fully release the lever, you're actually in a pretty good/normal place.

I prefer a minimum of freeplay (like the thickness of a quarter at the clutch perch).  So if the friction zone begins at 3/4 of the way from the grip, it's pretty ideal for me.

I know some people like a lot of freeplay (slop) in the clutch lever.  They want to have squeeze the lever all the way to the grip to fully disengage the clutch and their friction zone begins at maybe 1/8th release and the clutch is fully engaged by the time they release it 1/2 way.  And then the lever just flops around with all that freeplay slop.  This feels "yucky" to me, and I don't want to be clenching the lever all the way to the grip like GI Joe with the Kung Fo Grip to stay out of the friction zone.

If your clutch fully engages (no slipping under load) and fully disengages (no creeping when you're stopped and in gear), you don't have a clutch problem. You simply have a comfort or expectation mismatch.

Do you mean "releasing the lever" (not squeezing the lever)?

I don't know what other bikes you've had, but if the freeplay was set correctly around 3-5mm depending on the exact bike, the friction zone shouldn't be that close to the grip (1/4 out).

If you want the friction zone closer to the grip, just give it a ton of freeplay.  If that's what you like and that's what you are used to.