I wish there was a weather button.
I wish not every single thing counted towards the tiny item cap.
I wish there was a new house in which you can choose its color, even after you buy it.
Oh, and I agree about the huge grove of tree's...if we had huge groups like that it'd save the item cap from over capping on us when designing. I totally agree.
As for a search function, I'm not entirely okay with that. Since there is no way I could ever memorize what these items are called lol....it'd take me months to find 1 item. Unless the search was easy like if I search for a obvious word like "tree" and every single tree showed up. Or bench or whatever....and the thing about "fences" is the boardwalk for some reason has its own fence except you can use it off the boardwalk and it doesn't seem to show up under fences category. That should be changed. I'm tired of going back and forth between categories like that.....especially when I'm trying to design.