Okay could you offer an alternative solution?
I am thinking maybe adding another layer with no fill and controlling the labels there?
Also wondering if I perhaps could somehow use layer filtering like with this example: https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/latest/sample-code/timeslider-filter/index.html
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