It does, and many extensions on the store already request huge blanket permission sets they don't need. The UI flow for requesting a new permission with an upda

It does, and many extensions on the store already request huge blanket permission sets they don't need. The UI flow for requesting a new permission with an update is awful to the point that many users never even notice it, so you really should just request every possible permission when you first release your extension. They need to fix the UX here and it doesn't seem like they intend to.