I've been watching these streams and heard you mention free roaming villagers a few times, I've played around with villager mechanics a bit and the one thing people really miss is that their AI has been improved significantly which is pretty much useless 90% of the time, however in the case of free roaming villagers, if you strategically place beds they think they can path to but can't actually reach they'll reliably go in doors at night without being able to spawn nuisance golems or needing excessive numbers of beds. This should keep them from getting turned into zombies and witches but allow them to walk around freely. You probably know all this, but I do see hermits over engineering things like breeders because the mechanics used to be unreliable, even though now a baby villager will just walk into a hole 100% of the time if there's a bed on the other side without fail.
The conversation about "the girls" reminds me of a time a D&D podcast I listened to got a new player and people commented "Why does the girl get to play 2 characters now?"
