@meaton Can you please request a thorough walkthrough/guide to be written for the community on this as well as help the Apple team improve UX on enabling this? Others are dealing with this on https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/701874?login=true and I'm currently dealing with this as wel. The request form at https://developer.apple.com/contact/request/family-controls-distribution does not provide any submission confirmation (and it's difficult to find, ideally a link to request this would be in the Identifier tooltip and not just at the root of https://developer.apple.com/documentation/familycontrols), there is no way to check the status or estimated timeline, and it's not clear that the family control distribution request need to be enabled for related modules like a ShieldExtension.
I have the entitlement for Development but not Distribution, and have wasted a few days re-provisioning Certificates, Identifiers, Profiles multiple times only to land here and assume that our Profile doesn't have this Ad Hoc or App Store distribution enabled. We submitted the form about a month ago and still are left wondering if/when there will be traction here. I've put in a support ticket to get an update but all-in-all the developer experience could be a lot better.