Improve Scene editor, allow scene edits without setting devices' states

This is needed! I HATE that I have to wait for everyone to be out of the home to start tweaking that ONE scene that needs it via GUI.

In addition, I would like and “advanced” dropdown for each entity that is part of the scene that allows me to toggle on/off whether I want the setting to be stored as a part of the scene.

For example:
I set a scene for evening, where I want to turn on lamps, BUT I also have adaptive lighting installed. I want to be able to turn the light on, but I don’t want to set the brightness or coloring. At 7pm in winter it could be 30% and 2750K but in summer it might be WAY higher than that (95%?) and 5000K.

Right now I have to go into the file editor and edit the yaml of the scene and reload it. It’s OK, but it would be much more user friendly in the GUI.

Something to ask me what properties of each component I would like to remember for the scene if I toggle “Advanced Mode” or whatever would be perfect.

EDIT: After months/year+ of struggling I have moved ENTIRELY to scripts which allow the above to be implemented effectively.

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