It was notably missing from the first beta, and there was no final decision on its status as Beta 2 rolled out yesterday.

I wanted to quickly touch on the status of the API and what folks can expect in terms of updates since I'm sure that's top of mind. A post for Make Core outlining the current status/next steps, light history, and how folks can help is in progress. I intended to publish it sooner but some amazing work by various contributors has led to the post being more about "here's where we're headed" (the outcome) rather than "here are all the blockers and general timeline". It felt important to hold off sharing once this momentum and possible solution came to light. You've done a great job of sharing the current state and latest PRs though - thank you for doing so and for following along so closely. It helps bring the community along :).

In case it's helpful, I'll follow up in another comment as soon as I can to shed light on how it might impact style variations and the post author name block situation (as we went back and forth over in slack yesterday). Thank you, again.