I got to about page 22 and then stopped reading so apologies if this has been suggested before but I'd like to take some time to tell a story about a game (not WoW) that eventually had 2 LFD tools.
I used to play an MMORPG where there was not a tool to LFG. This meant as many people have said that finding groups could be frustrating and required lots of standing around in zones I had no other reason to be in spamming chat channels and generally doing nothing. The players asked for a LFG tool similar to that in use other MMO's and we were assured it would be implemented (in time), this was a Triple A MMO I.P. but not so much with the Triple A funding.
In the meantime some brightspark player created a chat channel on his server called globallff and made a post about it on the SERVER FORUM (*cough*) and drummed up a few players to join his channel. It started small like 5 or 6, eventually more and more people joined the channel as people spread the word, fastforward to ~12 months later an instance join feature arrives the channel (on my server) had nearly 400 members and had gone on to spawn several other global channels (trade/ooc) and even a couple of instance/raid specific channels.
The channel was also a very handyway to identify people who clearly need to be invited onto ignore lists and were never heard from again.
TLDR : right click chat tab - click create custom channel - Name your channel (i'm thinking GalacticLFF ?) - spread the word - profit . I hope you liked my cool story bro it may provide you with a short term compromise to allow you to expand your options.
Single Spec is fine when there are lots of players (options) when options (players) become thinner on the ground versatility can be helpful, which is probably why Bioware have said this something they are working on.
UI customisation is also on the way as confirmed by some guy called James Ohlen posting on this very website and claiming to be Game Director, likely story.
Porting would be nice but with or without is not a game breaker for me, considering binds and fleet passes and such.
/22 pence
EDIT : Yes to being able to see my combat log, no to everyone else's, wouldn't mind a combat state break notifier however.