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When did that happen?

Around 1995, in the first version. Today it lets you extend a selected edge multiple times with a series of Ctrl-clicks.

Then you are missing something!

What am I missing?

improve the adoption rate for Newbies

Is this really important?

I really miss my alt-print screen, I use that pretty much every time I use anim8or (for rough sketches on top of 3D models)

Use GIMP's File | Create | Screenshot command instead.

RudySchneider
Likewise, Anim8or uses Shift+T to cycle through the modes in the recent builds. But there are no dedicated hotkeys for the modes now that P, E and G are toggles.
How about making them exclusive again and keeping the visual buttons as toggles?

Selecting points when an edge is selected is very easy to do. I kept them separate to see if there was a use for that. Let me know what you think about this.

There should be a generic set of selection conversion commands for each component type, converting the selection to any of the other two component types. Meaning, there needs to be a To Points command for edges and faces, a To Faces command for edges and points and a To Edges command for faces and points. This is so useful that it even works perfectly as the sole component type switching method, as Wings3D will testify.
Also, Steve, a selection of individual points in fast select mode should best be scaled and rotated as a single unit about the points' common centre.

I think it's much more intuitive to edit work in the current view, based on what you've selected

Absolutely. Also, each uninterrupted piece of selection should rotate and scale about its own centre. That's a very intelligent default, but not all modelling software has latched on. It took Blender until last year to get support for that option.
Interestingly, that would make the Rotate Faces and Scale Faces tools redundant, because those would just be regular transforms.

I'm still experimenting with ways to support Z axis movement.

Have you considered introducing 4 toggle-while-held hotkeys (ideally, in a row on the keyboard) for All, X, Y, Z? This method doesn't have to interfere with the click-to-toggle action of the XYZ graphical buttons and can be independent.
F5–F8 perhaps?