haha yes, that describes all my frustrations quite well.
So - an update to the controller script that @sam pointed out here:
You are saying this should be done by way of a plugin? And I can’t update the code there, and then test it locally? is there no logical way? As a developer, and given the discourse/discourse is the core codebase, I would suggest that there needs to be an avenue to do this.
And given yes to the above - how can the software stack be reproducible?