I have done a great deal of research on aesthetics in software.
The Baby boomers generation started this whole computer use thing but the millennials are now on the roll.
The millennials literally were born with an app in hand, so to speak and not only values ease of performance but also the aesthetics of what they are using or buying.
I suppose it's like a car. A VW Beetle will get you anywhere reliably, but you will probably purchase a Mercedes or a Jeep with all the bells and whistles.
Most heavyweight production tools like C# and Android tools comes with a plethora of gimmicks, and the users love it.
Stupid as it may seem to choose between different coloured smiley faces or ten different styles of poo icons, the fact remains the users love this.
Although i am a hobbyist with way too little time to sit and try and program something for work, i have discovered that this counts just as much with senior people as with junior millennial users.
I saw with my own eyes how an It manager passed the biggest piece of cr@p software past a visiting cabinet minister by looks alone. The Minister even said "Gentleman I am impressed!" without knowing he had been shown a bunch of Icons running from a local database and that the platform online had not even been developed yet....(and its still a disaster today...)
You are making wonderful progress here, and i am childishly excited about the bucket loads of work you are all putting into this.
It would be an absolute heaven sent gift if the visual designer could allow additional controls, smart controls, plug ins etc.
Even greater if it could run on Android too....

...a need I had run into multiple times now. To apply a Android portion to work with my PC tool.
Any hobbyists work i do will have a much better chance of being permitted to cover the gaps op our organisation's ancient software.
Whatever you roll out here is great stuff, I am very thankful for what is happening.
Keep up the good work.
-Peter