I appreciate your effort but I have to say, none of those are would remotely constitute usability improvements for the average user. Your proposals all involve

I appreciate your effort but I have to say, none of those are would remotely constitute usability improvements for the average user. Your proposals all involve increasing the complexity of the information presented to the user. This has been the root of bad UI for ages. The harder design decision, and what our industry has slowly gotten better at, is how to reduce information.