IE Automatically Detect settings

We have a need to force clients to disable the Auto Detect setting in IE 11, for which there's no direct Group Policy setting which can be applied.

There is the registry key to set this as in: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/askie/2014/12/17/how-to-use-gpp-registry-to-uncheck-automatically-detect-settings/

We have found a script to modify byte 8 to hex 05 which does seem to work, and we added this to a GPO to run every time on logon.

There is also a very obsure registry key as in http://blog.raido.be/?p=426, but the key seems to be deleted once added, and this does not seem to be publicly recognised by Microsoft.

Are there any future plans to officially introduce a separate registry key to enable and disable the 'Automatically Detect' setting?

Thanks