From the FAQ:

Is there a way to "untrack all" items inside a category? It's a pain to untrack all individually. Just click the group header inside the tooltip, and it will collapse. There is no "untrack all" feature, and I will not be adding one.

As far as I can tell, there's no reason why we couldn't allow users to track/untrack items based on their category. It may even tie in well with existing issues #185, #64, #19, #18

Now that the item database is explicitly organized according to expansion and item type, it'll be fairly easy to modify the properties of items inside a specific partition. Overwriting user settings in the saved variables still sounds like a bad idea, so perhaps an override for the tracked/repeatable/etc settings (or in fact, any boolean flag we support) might be a better approach. In this case, the existing "experimental" setting to untrack/track battle pets should also be modified as it currently overwrites the user settings directly.

After this is done, adding a UI for each category should be manageable. The only maintenance burden would be adding new categories per expansion, as well as possibly item types later, which doesn't seem like a big deal.

Roadmap:

• Add support for a flagOverrides field to the Core
• Modify GUI to read this flag before the actual ones (and use the latter if it is set, i.e. not nil)
• Add options UI panel for Visibility (or similar, name TBD)
• Add checkboxes to the UI panel
• Update existing Untrack All button in the Advanced/Experimental settings panel to use the this field
• Update the FAQ to remove the (now-obsolete) paragraph