That's the point. I don't need to make them stickies. They won't clog up the all discussions page, but they are still super-easy to find by visiting the category directly, since it will be focused with a rather short list of posts.

Vanilla does have two kinds of stickies though, category stickies, and all discussion stickies, so I can sticky something inside a category without making iy a "global" sticky. But that is hardly needed as long as the contents of those categories are rather limited

Those are not directly editable, you have to use commands like :CC2ROTATE: on the entity.

I think the years have passed quicker than you remember Jim. CC3 was released 14 years ago. Web pages are still a bit older than that.

That's basically what the 'Resources' and 'Forum Rules & Guides' categories are for. They're intended to house all the permanent stuff I want to be easily accessible to the forum members..

An additional tip here is that you can use :CC2KEEP: on the entity. That changes the current color to that color (as well as other properties). This is great when you need that to be the default choice in change properties for changing other entities to match. It also lets you see the color visually on the status bar.