That's the "digital escort" process mentioned in the very long OP. Understandably, the US government got mad when they found out that cheap Chinese tech support staff were being used for direct intervention on "secure" VMs.
And this was NOT for the government clouds we have that hold classified data. Those are air-gapped clouds that physically cannot be accessed by anyone who doesnt have a TS clearance and physically go into a SCIF.
source: I work in a team very closely related the team who designed digital escort.
I guess we agree on the point where it should not be necessary, which echoes Cutler’s original intent of “no operational intervention.”
This is not an impossible task, after all it’s just user-mode code calling into platform APIs.