Hi Aseef.
Your effort was delayed mainly because of some discussions on controversial topics in the VEP design. To be fair, the VEP was merged and then re-discussed because of pushback that emerged. Despite that, you had the patience to let the discussion settle and did your best to compromise. In addition, the last PR should be relatively straightforward to review (at least I hope so).
I support this exception request.
From my POV, we should try to merge this PR by July 1st. I will review it ASAP.
Itamar.