"To me Andrew's request is for graphic interface changes with minimal to no changes in operation."

Nope. That is definitely how I don't see it. Why would you want transfer broken or half baked feature to new tool (panel)? It's poor planning at best, as you would have to go in at change that at a later time. Why would you want to do double work? That is the biggest issue with BIAB - addressing issues only partially. That's how we got here in the first place. For example, if a big push was made in 2016, when Minimalistic view was in works, addressing much (!) wider scope of UI/Workflow issues, we would likely not have these conversations.