Was she referring to Q3/Q4 2023 or Q3/Q4 2024? This would be super useful for us too as we have the same problem to solve (asked so many times to Shopify support but never received any consistent answer).
I personally think that by using the same handle not translated in all the markets is not going to deeply affect the SEO, so I agree with the articles previously shared. But at the same time I do not understand why it shouldn’t be possible to have such a feature available. Even if it might affect let’s say for only 5%, this wouldn’t be a good scenario since the SEO has meant lots of efforts during the last couple of years.