Your interface advice is bad. You should feel bad.

I find it amazing that people are paid, decent money even, to work on the usability and interface design of software.  Here's a protip: if you think that your ideas will make an interface 'simpler', 'less confusing', or 'easier' in general, you are wrong.  Consider, rather than offering your advice to various developers and the public, instead hitting yourself in the face with a shovel.