I hope my suggestions will be seen not as a "bagging-Poser-development" sort of comment: I've had the privilege to see how other programmes approach a problem and very humbly, very respectfully submit that the material room could benefit from concepts I see employed in other apps.

The above-mentioned solution would work for not only the hackers/tweakers/developers who want to have control over all minutiae, but also those who loathe and dread the mat room because of all those baffling features that excite programming/mathematical minds (I'm not one of those, of course). Those clever people - again, not me... I'm definitely not clever - could put together a solution that could at the same time lend itself to tweaking and modifying and enhancing but - more importantly - ease-of-use for those who just want to get on with creating their scene.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks