Team Project Sequence Locking Visual Cues

Our company recently decided to use Premiere Team Projects to enable multiple editors working simulatenously. Our workflow is:

1. Main editor creates  team project with media on shared storage. Some files are also mapped to editors local drives.  

2. Main editor organizes team project into bins along with sequences. 

3. Main editor invites other editors to the team project (invites are accepted)

4. Each editor points their scratch disk to their local storage

5. Other editors start editing different sequences

This is where we run into problems. The main editor CAN SEE that the other team members are online. What they don't see are any visual cues that show which editors are working on sequences. It's also does not lock the sequences while other editors are working. When the other editors publish their updates the main editor doesn't see the updates.

The only way for the main editor to see the updates are for them to close the project and reopen it. Then the update button shows up and can be clicked. The updates appear.

If the main editor is editing at the same time then sometimes there is the issue of the publish and update buttons appearing at the same. This sometimes causes version conflicts to appear. 

What are we doing wrong? 

We are on Premiere 24.3.0

Mac OS 14.4.1

Also we have to use a Cisco VPN for our email platform. 

Thanks for any insight.