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> That problem seems to be endemic to all EDA not just the pcb part.
> Perhaps that should be a short term mission. (not trying to push you
> into it, just trying to find a focusing point)

In pcb, the internal data is a bit hokey.  It would be nice if the
data could recurse, allowing a footprint to be more than just the few
things allowed in a footprint, or to handle heirarchical designs more
cleanly.  There are lots of arbitrary limits in our internal data
system that could be changed.

Another "short term" project is replacing the ancient object oriented
design with something easier to maintain.  Huge tables of function
pointers all over the source is a bad thing these days.