Was encouraged by @Quiddity to add the ability to select tasks by field name, which was an idea I'd already had. I've gone ahead and written the required code for the backend (see, confusingly, the wmhack2023 PR), and just need to decide how to implement the selection on the frontend. (Visually, I mean.)
Suggestions welcome! (I'm thinking a drop-down menu with the possibility of making multiple selections, as we did with the multi-select annotations fields.)