Publish variation code without required `weight` or `name` properties Merged

As Staff Engineer at Cro Metrics I work on our engineering build tools, which we use to service all of our Optimizely Web customers. I would like to be able to submit variation code to an experiment (using the https://library.optimizely.com/docs/api/app/v2/index.html#tag/Experiments/operation/update_experiment API) without having to specify the variation `name` or `weight` values. It would be ideal if I only need to specify the `variation_id` number and `actions` array in order to make code changes.
Having to specify the weight value causes issues and confusion for our team in situations where the account management team modifies the variation weight distribution (say 100% to v1) then our engineer pushes code changes to the experiment and it unwittingly overwrites the traffic distribution back to whatever we have stored along with the code (usually 50/50 split). This scenario can lead to mistakenly launching experiments with the wrong traffic allocation, costing our team (and the client) time and energy. Making the weight field optional would solve this issue by simply leaving the weight unchanged, allowing it to remain untouched with whatever value is currently set.
Additionally, and less importantly, the `name` field is also required by the API, although it's not marked as "required" in the API documentation. Trying to submit the data without the variation name returns an error. It would be ideal if we had the option to leave this value alone when making changes to the variation code.