Setup WiFi on Photon without using iOS Setup Library

For whatever reason, the excellent photonsoftap.meteor.com hasn’t worked on any iOS devices I’ve tested it on. Because of this, I’ve been working on a react-native app for the past week to implement something very similar in a cross-platform manner. I’ve therefore learned quite a bit about the softap setup process and I have to say that by far, the biggest hiccup is the lack of a way to verify user-entered credentials. Is there any effort under way to improve this process both for the user and us developers? Using heuristics to determine successful/unsuccessful connection reliably and accurately while keeping the user happy and well-informed seems nigh impossible.

For comparison, the Ackme Wiconnect module provides an API call to verify the entered credentials before locking them in and attempting a connection:

http://wiconnect.ack.me/2.3/commands#network_verify

Could something like this be provided to short circuit the failure?