I’m fairly new to HA and I generally like it! Also the scene editor is very nice because it makes scene editing more convenient than YAML, imo. However, after being an issue/request for more than 3 years, with 255 votes as of now, I want to stress the need for this feature. The use cases are evident, numerous examples can be found in this thread.
I know, what frenck stated back in 2019 in the related GitHub issue:
I can assure you, it is not a simple effort. The states are snapshotted from the running state engine. This feature you are asking for is a tremendous amount of work.
This is more than 3 years ago, so maybe it became easier to implement a solution? Is there any more detailed dev discussion about this matter (except for this dev thread)?