I dunno, multiple years of silence on the issue has soured my hopes considerably.

I think you misunderstood. They are asking for things the users find hard, confusing or annoying. The vast majority of users, every year, says that roll based permissions are at the top of that list.

Haha I do every year, at least by way of voting. Did it again this year even though it seems like it’ll never happen.

Also voted for the SSO one that comes along every year, but is admittedly not as voted for. Funny thing is, there’s a mostly working HACS integration for SSO, so it should be “relatively” easy to implement natively.