@Nachiket Kamat There's actually an important distinction here. For item-level permissions in Fabric (like sharing the Lakehouse itself), you're correct, only workspace Admins and Members can change item-level permissions or share with people outside the workspace. However, the statement about "Workspace admins, members, and contributors" refers specifically to folder-level access control via OneLake data access roles which is a different feature. According to Microsoft documentation on OneLake security prerequisites: "To configure OneLake security, you must be an Admin or Member in the workspace, or have Write and Reshare permissions" So Contributors CAN create and manage OneLake data access roles for folder-level granularity, but they CANNOT change item-level permissions (that's Admin/Member only).

@Nachiket Kamat You are right. OneLake data access roles indeed apply to both tables and folders.