“significant amount of work” doesn’t sound like a 2 week fix. I assume we’ll never see a target date given, but they do appear to be planning a Beta at some point.
We understand the frustration. As @JasonM said below, we’re working on a permanent fix that provides the type of selection and filtering the community is asking for. This fix requires a significant amount of dev effort though. We tried to ID near-term fixes that would provide this sort of functionality but none of them would have been done in time and they would have resulted in unacceptable compromises based on the feedback we received. The dev teams are working on as fast of a timeline as possible to get this out.