I am 100% on board with this.
I’ve got clients who need to let their users do things like submit and edit a post. They don’t want that user to be able to feature the post on the front page though, which means rolling my own meta box in functions.php. Not that it’s hard to roll your own metabox with a “manage_options” conditional in a system like WP Alchemy – but boy, it’d sure be convenient if ACF did it natively.
