Whatever the end result, I think the consensus is that we want the ability to sort and display in a logical order with the ability for forced customization. Is this a neat and small catch-all?

Yeah that about sums it up, and we've all made our cases for various implementations. In the end it will be up to what "copious free time" the guys have. If the past is any indicator, they will come up with something that works even better than anything we've come up with so far. But I'm guessing it will have elements from at least a couple of these suggestions.

At this point I think I'm going to put the commas into my tags just so they're sorted properly until this feature appears.