I would like to not have those roles separate, given that we expect them to actually be the same (i.e. staff in LMS should also be staff in Studio and vice versa). I recently added code to the LMS side of things to separate the notion of what the roles are (CourseStaff, CourseInstructor) from how they are implemented (the specifics of what the group names are, and which one takes priority when adding a new user, and so on).

Would it be possible to switch Studio over to the new roles code, and then make this change there?