Hi @davidroberts63 ,
While connector filters were never really designed to replace the "approved packages" workflow, we've seen many users do exactly that over the years, yielding hundreds of entries.
It's not exactly a use case we recommend, as one of the big benefits of the approved packages flow is to prevent "instinctively upgrading dependencies" yielding in regressions. But, if you're already effectively doing that through automation, then I suppose you already know the risks :)
From a performance standpoint, it shouldn't make a notable impact. Those have been optimized for quite some time now.
Thanks,
Alana