Pipeline stage going into PROD must be bundled?

Hi team, our team has been using DevOps Center installed packaged for the last 2 years and I am excited for the native one and been actively testing it.

It seems the pipeline stage going into PROD must be bundled. This is a pretty significant behavior change from the legacy package. For our use case, we have to allow individual work items being promoted to prod so we cannot bundle the stage going into PROD.
Is this an enforced deliberate decision or will we be able to toggle that setting in the future?

Start with issue #45 and its two attached screenshots, then review the native DevOps Center pipeline-stage behavior described by the reporter. Confirm whether bundling the production stage is intentional and identify the scope of a configurable alternative; done means the behavior or its supported configuration is clearly established.

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