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Agree with you @JoshKushner - there is a place to store this under the workflow properties, and it would be better if it self-managed this like MS Word does.
I would like to keep the same functionality we have today as well - being able to store my authorship on a canvas is somewhat valuable, and I wouldn't want this to change without manual intervention.