Hey FuzzyDude.
I reread your OP and have followed this thread.
I do understand your concerns and most of them are correctly presented in your original post.
If I may, there are a number of assumptions made that might rub the wrong way.
1. You assume that few people own the FC 12 and therefore it is ignored. You call that the REAL problem. You should know - if you don't - that the FC 6 and FC 12 share the exact same software so the issues, if they exist, apply to the entire FC family. And neither you, nor I, know how many have been sold and are in use.
2. You state that there is a deafening silence on the FC 12 progress. But please look at Axe III and FM3 release notes for FC improvements. There have been many over the past couple of years. They are not listed in the FC forum because they are improvements that are part of the AXE software.
3. Your OP mixes up bugs and feature requests. You should start a BUG thread and stick to bugs in that. Then start a WISH thread and put in your feature requests. Otherwise you come across as a whiner and unfortunately get treated as one.
Nevertheless, you do bring up good points and I am sure (100%) that they are being heard and noted. Thanks for bringing them up - the community feedback is a major force in driving progress with FAS.
And as I said, now that the work on the FM9 - which has I am sure significantly captured a lot of engineering time - is basically done, I am certain that those other priorities will see more more attention.