Have you implemented any storage automation leveraging

I have not - thanks! At a quick glance, I don't see any examples that disable default protection. From what I can see, the REST API 1.x doesn't support this at all. REST API 2.x requires setting `with_default_protection=False` when calling the "post_volumes" function, so I just did a grep for "with_default" (zero matches) and for "default" (got a few unrelated matches)