Vertex Sets for Curves? / or equivalent

Are there Vertex Sets/Groups for CURVES? Or is there a feature that be mis-used to the same effect?

Basically, I want to be able to easily select a sub-set of the vertices that make up a complicated curve.

doesn’t seem like there is, but you could hook some vertices to empties and put them into a collection? or parent them to bones?

I’ve never used Hooks, so I have no idea.

Gonna go make a suggestion on RCS, this seems like a bit of a no-brainer to implement.

A year later, I still think this would be a good feature to implement.