Proper Usage of Block Permissions

We’ve used Members for many years on sites to simplify the WP interface for clients. This has worked really well to restrict many editing screens from being shown to them.

But now we’re moving into sites that use the block editor, which opens up a huge amount of excess that clients don’t need to see or utilize. So I enabled the ‘Members – Block Permissions‘ add-on to see if this could help.

– Is there a guide somewhere on how this feature is SUPPOSED to work?

I don’t think I’m getting it, or maybe expecting too much. I know I can log in as a client user account and disable all the blocks they don’t need to see in the Preferences. But if they really wanted to, they could easily re-enable those.

So logged-in as Admin, and I did see the ‘Permissions‘ panel when I had a specific block selected. I set that to ‘Hide block from selected > User Role > Editor (our default client role)’.

But when I logged-in as the Editor account, I could still see & access the block, and add a new instance of it. So didn’t see any difference.

A) Am I missing something about how this is supposed to function?

B) If we wanted a smaller sub-set of blocks that we wanted client user accounts to see and use, would we have to load a page as Admin with EACH AND EVERY block type that we didn’t want them to see and attach ‘hide’ permissions to them? And do the same on every site we wanted to do that with? That might be a lot…

C) If the Block Permissions is not designed for this real purpose, is there a way to hide the ‘Preferences‘ screen in the block editor? If we could set the permissions the way we want and then block access to it, that could work (though still be tedious over many users).

D) If this is just not possible with Members, or not how it’s designed to work, any other options that might provide an easy way to have a set of block permissions that could easily be applied to different users on different sites?

THANKS FOR ANY TIPS HERE!