CiviCRM contact reference: display as a list (select) instead of an autocomplete

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
when registering a participant to an internal event, we have a "your organisation" field and we use the autocomplete to list the member organisations (70 orgs)

The problem is that because that field is an autocomplete, the participant needs to type the first letter of their organisation, and then among the list select their organisation, and because our participants aren't tech savvy, they struggle understand the problem (and it's a bit of a discoverability issue, you need to know it's an autocomplete to be able to use it).

Describe the solution you'd like
Instead of that autocomplete, have the option to display as a select.

Describe alternatives you've considered
On drupal webform, there is an option to switch between pre-filled select (if small list of contacts) or autocomplete like on cf

I'm not sure what's the easiest for the end user, either having two types of contact autocomplete (pre-filled select vs autocomplete) or as an extra option

What do you think? Is this already a feature and I missed it? any guidance on how to code it?