For better visibility, you might want to consider posting your comment/request as a new thread, since it's easy for this to be missed as part of a larger discussion (I see you've also posted essentially the same request in another thread).Is there a way to only pass certain verses for processing.....
I hope you've submitted Feedback, since from what I understand the Church does gather data about how frequently certain features are requested, so although we're never sure to what degree, it does seem that quantity of feature requests does matter.
That said, it does appear what you describe has been implemented by the Church to some degree, although who knows how complicated or straightforward it is. When I click on a footnote in a scripture in Gospel Library (either web or app), the displayed verse in the sidebar only shows the highlighted verses, and not the entire chapter. Again, perhaps there's internal code that processes what ends up displayed in the footnote bar, but it would be nice to know if there's existing "hidden" functionality that would return only the content you prefer.