fwiw, you have lots of good ideas. I'm not sure why Steve has this
burning desire to dismiss the lot of them as if it were one single
request. Don't let it discourage you. Most of what you're proposing is
already in the works in various stages, or in plans for the future. It
is certainly not "crap", and a rather large community of artists and
more than a few devs agree with most of your list items. Steve seems
to be saying "hey, let's not do that all at once, and make the
software too complex!". I think we can let him have that point. What
do you think? ;)