that’s fair, lol… there could probably be a basic search for matching releases, but I don’t know how available stuff like UPCs and catalog numbers are for unreleased music, so we might not be able to tell if it’s the same version… it would theoretically be possible to not make new release groups if one already exists though, provided the artist hasn’t done any shenanigans with their release titling (looking at you, Weezer and especially Brouillard) 
this is exactly the reason, yes. it’s understandably difficult to find how many releases come out every week, but I’m sure there’s at least a thousand, certainly many more than the roughly 200* we’re getting already. having this data on new releases could give some people a reason to use MusicBrainz who wouldn’t otherwise
*based on yesterday’s releases multiplied by 7, lol
I will note again, the whole conditional auto-edit thing is entirely optional, I was just addressing some editors concerns from the previous thread
the core of my idea is how to denote such imported releases and integrate them into the database