Chiming in here (better late then never): I agree with the store level parametization Much like customizable objects on thingaverse.
This is wonderful feedback, and thank you. We’re working to make it really easy to print designs from the catalog - which may come at the expense of making it harder to create designs for the catalog. If you’re designing now with a goal of submitting to the catalog, then I would expect to have to re-draw your final design in some new environment to make them work properly, and that this process will probably be rolled out later after shipments start as a lower priority while we focus on the software that everyone requires first. That way, if we do something sooner/better, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
For the time being, any of the suggestions here is a fine interim point - onshape, color coded tabs if you can make that work (seems challenging but might be possible?), or something else.