Outstanding observations. Much of what you wrote I have seen in my game. I have never had CC or MOD's in my game that could or would influence the game play. Even when someone reports an issue, the 1st question is - did you remove CC and MOD from your game and........ personally, I refuse to go through that.. If I get asked that... it ends the conversation until I cool off. I despise being taking as a liar. Just being the brutally honest person I am.
Much of your desires to see things "across all packs" I think is something they are trying to do with the Rene project that everyone seems to think was stopped and I don't know why cause it is still in development. I saw the colorwheel for the tatoo's in Business and Hobbies, soooo, giving that... one could suppose, hmmm, trial and error, experimentation, list is long... Just my thoughts/opinions.