Thanks for your thoughts and your comment. I have already my fun ^^
I have of course toyed around with Blender 2.8 already. That’s how i stumbled across the above named quirks. And i am not as happy as you are.
But it will take quite a while to just create a working version before we come to possible changes and improvements. So there is still lots of time to evaluate which change makes sense and which not. And we will not do changes just for the sake of being different. The changes must make sense.
We will see 