Is there a reliable/practical way to set a defaultValue for the Autocomplete/StandaloneSearchBox components?

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I'm saving location data in my API and I need to pre-populate the field with that data so it can be modified if needed. Is there a reliable way to do this? Preferably similar to a defaultValue prop or some controlled/uncontrolled state.

I'm looking at Google's documentation for the Autocomplete class and it looks like they don't have any first-class options/methods for this. I was just wondering if anyone in the community has found a sensible workaround.

We can try to manually propagate the value with a combination of manual assignment (...querySelector().value = location) and setTimeout, but this is highly unreliable and rather hacky.