Page level restriction in the database

I’m automating the creation of a unique page for each new user when they register (i.e., a customer portal) and part of doing this required adding the page level restriction (e.g., level0 – 4) for the new page.

After quite a bit of searching I eventually discovered that this setting is stored in the wp_options table inside the record with the option_name of ws_plugin__s2member_options. This single record contains a whole bunch of other stuff as well, relating to the admin settings of s2member.

Why weren’t page settings like this put in the wp_postmeta table? It would make much more sense.