Excluding certain things from scene simplification

Wouldn't it be nice if there was a possibility to exclude certain things from the effects of scene simplification option located in the Render tab?

Specifically, excluding certain images from their resolution being clamped by the option mentioned above.

Even the simplest exclusion is gonna do a lot: If you have a scene with lots of stuff going on in the background and a detailed character in the foreground - you don't need distant background rocks with 8k textures taking ~50 pixels of the screen to clog the VRAM with their textures, but you do need the foreground character to have its textures in source quality.

An ability to specify image size limit per material/image would be an absolute dream.

Even a couple expensive materials can totally take up gigabytes of VRAM, even if they don't have to.