OK, everyone.
I might look into building a new module. There have been enough arguments for it in this thread, coding something from scratch is probably more fun anyway and hopefully this would avoid most of the fights happening here.
Summary: Nothing too fancy or innovative, but a module that does the same thing as the TE, with the guided filter histogram always force-aligned, but still having controls for blur amounts and details threshold to manually avoid artifacts like halos.
It would have multiple sets of user controls, with each using different internal curves. Those would also mostly be taken from other places in DT.
But first I need to finish my current project. If we actually merge it or not is a different question, but I need it as a proof of concept to be sure that the single new part (auto-aligning the mask) does work. I have two open unanswered questions on the discussion to the github pull request and a 3rd one has arisen, which I will post there soon. These need to be answered first.
Would everyone be on board with this and support me doing it?