Seems like you did not read my post carefully! You can justify your current process as much as you want and that's fine. I think you can do better than that and improve the GSX in that regard.
I read your post carefully, it's you who haven't read my answer. As I've said:
- GSX already selects an operator automatically, if you just wait a few seconds for the operator menu to close and choose the operator automatically
- With the ability to set ANY operator to ANY parking spot, overriding the default scoring system, an airport profile can set precisely which operators are available there.
We ALREADY discussed a possible additional layer of operator selection, which is "which operators those airlines prefer to do business with", but no work on it has started and, there will be the issue that, if the airport profile has already specified a single operator on a specific gate, it still won't work because, at most, it can only offer an automatic scoring boost when the scoring IS used or, when explicit operators in the airport profile are more than one.