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That's fine, the code-level check is just as easy.

You could also use a stack transformation to overlay the protect flag. A super simple example can be found here: <https://github.com/MitchellGerdisch/pulumi_work/blob/main/ts-stack-transformation-example/index.ts>
It’s still code, but maybe a bit cleaner depending on the use-case.

Much harder to back-out though. When you finally to want to make a little tweak to the stack, you have to unprotect each resource that needs to be updated or deleted. Could be hard.