2: Thats a UI problem, I sincerely hope that gets fixed after beta 4, or whenever they feel comfortable with fixing the UI (I can understand they want to wait with this, until the last part of the game, so they wont do double work on UI).
3: Think they have some ideas in the making, lots of people have said this 
4: Dunno about this, might be interesting.
Sincerely
~ Kongdej