My initial reaction was that, in order to give business teams this level of autonomy, curation rules are by far the most effective tool — they already cover the needs for pinning and hiding products. Unfortunately, the

filter_by

on curations uses exact match only. But honestly, that's not really an issue in our case, since we can leverage curation tags, and maintain a reference table on our side to determine whether to apply a single curation or multiple curations