Sorry for the late reply Kevin. I think what you are suggesting makes sense, it would be basically a `last-state` startup mode. This would also help in cases where the current last-state mechanism fails to locate HA metadata (and the state).
This is somewhat of a tricky feature to implement: 1. The operator will need FS plugins and access to the different user envs (this will not work in many prod environments unfortunately) 2. Flink doesn't expose a good way to detect the latest checkpoint just by looking at the FS so we need to figure out something here. Probably some changes are necessary on Flink core side as well Gyula
