In previous iterations of the game the rules have stated to only add boons and banes that are the level of the current adventure to the vault. And even in the new rulebook it specifies
Use the divider labeled Future Adventures for cards not in the vault whose level is higher than #"However in Adventure 1 of Dragon's Demand, under build the vault, it states
At the start of the adventure path, the vault should contain all Core Set cards except for banes whose level is higher than 1. If you are playing with a character from a Class Deck or Adventure Path box, add all of the level 0 and 1 cards from that box.
Unless I somehow got my CotCT and DD cards mixed up, I believe that "all of the Core Set cards except for banes whose level is higher than 1" would also contain level 2 and level 3 boon cards. That seems like a pretty big change from past iterations, and also creates the (imo frustrating) situation where you come across a sweet boon, acquire it, and then have to throw it out after the scenario since you're not on a high enough level adventure yet.
Should I mix in all of the level 2 and 3 DD boons into my vault even though I'm on Adventure 1?
If you have Curse of the Crimson Throne, you can certainly get away with just adding in Curse cards of the appropriate level, and not putting in 'overlevelled' boons which - as you mention - you'd have to drop at the end of a scenario.
The overlevelled boons, as cartmanbeck says above, helps to keep the boon quantity appropriately high, since the set is smaller than usual. But since Dragon's Demand is a mere 3-adventure AP, it also means that you get more chances to see and play with higher-level cards, even if you don't get to keep them in your actual character deck between scenarios. The adventure path doesn't take very long to complete, so without that rule there's a good chance that the party will never end up acquiring more than one or two Level 3 boons before the AP finishes.
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The thing I like most about it is that, previously, after playing a couple scenarios within an adventure, you would often feel that you've already managed to get the most useful boons out of locations, meaning that finding a boon was often a disappointment. Now there's stuff worth acquiring from the locations even at the end of an adventure.
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Only the Dragon's Demand storybook asks you to start by adding all the boons to the vault. If you're playing adventure 1 of Curse of the Crimson Throne, the vault should be built from all Core and Curse level 0 and 1 cards only.
If you're playing The Dragon's Demand adventure 1 again but want to add the cards from Curse, I would also just use level 0 and 1 cards and take all the 2s and 3s back out. They're only there for certain situations where it was possible to run out of cards, and that won't be a problem after adding the Curse cards.
Should I mix in all of the level 2 and 3 DD boons into my vault even though I'm on Adventure 1?
FYI, this is a commonly missed rule in the PACG core. Here are others: