🇺🇸United States ec-adam
I can confirm that the patch in #218 works very well in Drupal 10.1.1, PHP 8.1.8!
I tested as an admin and as a user who does not have permission to change to the state they tried to bulk update to. The only thing that seemed a little strange (to me at least) was that the access denied message for the user without permissions came after the bulk operation looked like it had run. Seems like a little better UX to have the message appear before the running the operation (perhaps when the user clicks Apply on the moderation state action screen).