Better filtering for smart collections - by number of keywords

There is a nice feature for smart collections that allow filtering keywords by "are empty" and "aren't empty"
I would like to filter keywords by X number of keywords.
It's great to have a collection that tells me that there are no keywords but if I add only one keyword I then have to find the image by that keyword.
As a work flow this doesn't work great. I want to start with images with no keywords, then work through images with 1 keyword and 2 etc. To continue the process you would also need to remove the images from the smart collection (like remove from collection for standard collections) being able to remove the image from collection of has only 3 keywords should apply also to has 4 keywords etc. This way if you have an image that only needs 1 keyword you don't have to remove the image from every progressively higher amount of keyword collections.

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