in-Meeting Chat Feature Request - Select Multiple Participants / Make Chat Groups

Currently, when the in-meeting chat is set to allow participants to chat with "Everyone and anyone directly", the participants have the choice of 'Everyone' or 'Participant A' or 'Participant B', and so on in this alphabet example.

It would be great to have the ability to have the in-meeting chat allow for the participant to select multiple 'anyones' to chat directly with - such as I would like to chat directly with 'Participant A, C, and G' but not the other 23 in this  alphabet example of participants.

Further, this multii-selection would create a unique instance in the 'To:' drop-down that would remain a persistent selection in the drop-down of those involved in the conversation throughout the  duration of the meeting.

An alternative, and perhaps added or better, option is the ability to pre-define and template in-meeting 'Chat Groups' in your personal meeting area - similar to how you would template and pre-assign guests to breakout rooms - so that you could chat with different teams of people during the course of your meeting as they are in different breakout rooms as groups, etc.