Direct Lake RLS - DirectQuery fallback

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Hi, the official documentation says that if I connect to a table that has RLS in the SQL Analytics Endpoint, Direct Lake will fall back to DirectQuery: Develop Direct Lake semantic models - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

Does the same thing apply if I don't define the RLS on the lakehouse/warehouse but directly in Power BI?

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I've found the answer: Manage Direct Lake semantic models - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn

[...] If different users must be restricted to access only subsets of data, if viable, enforce RLS at the semantic model layer only. That way, users will benefit from high performance in-memory queries.

So the answer is no: DirectLake does not fall back to DirectQuery