"if it would be possible to avoid an additional distribution, I think that might be better, as the amount of work all teams have (including eng, QE etc.) increases a lot with every distribution we have, it might be possible for example to introduce a special role and only show the optaplanner features when you have that role (like we did for asset mgmt)"

For the solver editor this is obvious: don't allow creating new files of this type if that authorization isn't there.

For the domain editor this will be a bit more special, as the planner annotations must only be available if the authorization is there.