You'll be happy to know after spending time writing all this that we have no idea if Larian devs are looking at this feedback or largely ignoring it like they did for DOS/2 EA.
If we're lucky d20 rolls 20 and they hired some people to comb the forums.
Good write-up though.
It's okay I'm going to keep submitting it. Who knows it may be useful, at least it lets me get my frustration out in a constructive way.