[Plugin: Edit Flow] Auto subscribe User (not User Groups) on status change

I looked over the documentation on the Edit Flow website, and thru the Forum here about how to auto subscribe certain users to a post when the status changes. I saw this: https://editflow.org/extend/auto-subscribe-user-groups-for-notifications/ but it only describes the process for User Groups, not individual users. What is the process for auto subscribing a single (or handful) of users to a post when the status of the post changes?

In our situation, each contributor is assigned to a specific editor. I’d like each editor to only receive notification when one of their contributors updates their post’s status. I could do groups of one and use the filter from the above link, but that seems silly.

My setup is below. At the end of the two switches, I have one variable, $notify_user, that should be auto-subscribed on a status change. How do I hook that into Edit Flow?

function efx_auto_subscribe_user( $new_status, $old_status, $post ) {
	global $edit_flow;

	// Define editor for each author
	switch( $post->post_author )
	{
		case 4: // Andy
		case 9: // Sarver
		case 6: // Ryan
		case 7: // CJ
			$editor = 5; // Jenn
			break;
		case 5: // Jenn
		case 10: // Jason
		case 2: // Jim
		case 8: // McKenzie
			$editor = 3; // Jess
			break;
		case 11: // Phil
		case 12: // Deidre
		case 3: // Jess
			$editor = 4; // Andy
			break;
		default:
			break;
	}

	switch( $new_status )
	{
		case 'pending-review':
			$notify_user = $editor;
			break;
		case 'reviewed':
			$notify_user = $post->post_author;
			break;
		case 'draft':
		case 'ready-to-publish':
			$notify_user = 2; // Jim
		default:
			break;
	}

	// Return true to send the email notification
	return true;
}

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