You’re impression is accurate Toby. Its been the case since 22’ when Softr started adding additional datasources beyond Airtable and Google Sheets. This is why it took three years for conditional forms to be released, and just this year are able to change users email addresses, and authenticate emails on sign up, when these essential features were requested here in the community back in 21’.
We were actually told the new onboarding would be released 3 months ago, so we could finally use said features, and to wait for it instead of configuring workarounds: