TextMesh Pro How to render TextMeshPro the last regardless of Hierarchy?

You know uGUI relies a lot on hierarchy ordering. And each TextMeshPro text will probably have its own SDF material so it cannot be batched. The ideal for non-occluded TextMeshPro is to have them drawn the last after everything else.

In this picture, the 873 and 1000000 number was from the same SDF TextMeshPro material (with the "Overlay" variant so they would draw the last) But when using Frame Debugger, it is still being drawn sequentially from top of hierarchy to the bottom, resulting in batch breaking even though nothing will be displayed over them.



Here, the hierarchy tree would look like this because I wanted them to animate together. Everything are under the same Canvas :

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. >Judgement
3. >>RedPerfect
4. >>>873
5. >>Perfect
6. >>>873
7. >>Good
8. >>>873
9. >>Miss
10. >>>873
11. >Score
12. >>1000000
13.  

My current solution is to "peel" them out to a separated canvas (Inherit settings, but with overridded sorting to be the old one +1) positioned at the bottom, collecting them. This way they would be drawn last like before, but the batch not breaking. Because a new canvas will guarantee separated batch.

Code (CSharp):

1.  
2. >Judgement
3. >>RedPerfect
4. >>Perfect
5. >>Good
6. >>Miss
7. >>InnerCanvas
8. >>>873
9. >>>873
10. >>>873
11. >>>873
12. >Score
13. >>1000000
14.  

But it is a hassle because I have to do this after the animation and restore them when I want to do animation again so they go together with their parents.

Can you make the "Distance Field Overlay" material drawn last regardless of where it is on the hierarchy? (Preferrably sorted by material types after they are all grouped the last) Or any better way? Thank you.

 

After studying how canvas batching and SetPass work I also recognize this problem. The simplest use case: button with text overlay should be animated upon the user's press. If text is stored inside of button's hierarchy, it's easy to animate and maintain. Otherwise, it's just... It's just baaaaad.