Well, who would have thought.
It is a funny coincidence that R20 does have this feature. We've been years without this ability and now suddenly solutions pop up in my mind as well as in MAXON's developers ones. There must be something in the air ... or we must have been smoking the same stuff. Oh right, I don't smoke.
I don't know if this feature was already available in R20 betas, way before I dreamed up the solution.
But I want to believe that MAXON's developers were inspired by this thread, and implemented their take on it. That way, the whole orphan point project at least wasn't "pointless".
Still am jealous of @JLeaburn coming up with this terrific plugin name ... ROFLMOPO. My hat off to you, sir.