the agonizing part about trying to do anything off the beaten path in an especially novice-friendly engine is that no matter how you try to phrase your task, the search results are going to be ten thousand copies of people asking extremely basic questions like "how do you hide the textbox"
and then if you try to ask in support channels you have to fight against a current where they assume you're really just asking how to hide the textbox, and if they're not an engine dev then chances are they actually don't know how to do more than hide the textbox
anyway i had some adventures today