Two things that we're solving for at Oso is: making it easier for multiple teams to collaborate on permissions (which we solve by having a declarative language), and solving the list filtering problem (as talked about in the post).
If you don't need either of those two things and are happy with a DIY approach, what you've shared would work great IMO. If you packaged that up as a standalone solution, I could see a lot of people getting value from it!
There are not enough people sharing authz implementations out there, a blog post on this shares approach would be super cool.
[1] https://github.com/bottledcode/durable-php/blob/3ad509fcdbb3...