Thank you for posting your long list, it is always good to have something for having productive discussions.
I have the same point about "dont't remove existing features used by some persons and about the phone-home-problems". Maybe the developer is willing to enhance the ftp-client for this big donation (because everybody has advantages of this), if yes, I think he will contact you (but It can not be bad if you send him a "Private Message" via this board about this). I rather would use PSPad as the only FTP-Client if this would work fine, too. About the "I dont't use this or that feature": Maybe some of theses could be hided via a new ini-file? Possible personalization is always a good thing. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?6,49898,50242> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
