No, this is V7 specific and will probably still require a lot of feature enhancements and bug fixes before it is even considered something done for V7. We do have an internal V7 Mac build that we test this with and the gradient hatches are working on Mac.
You should have access to the Mac V7 WIP on the same day that Mac V6 ships.
I haven’t thought of this. Do you have samples of effects you would like to try to achieve?