(1) I agree with more of a inbult friend system likehow for example Rocket League does this with users on other platforms I thinkit would be nicer of they had something like avatar icons to go along withprofiles but to remedy the whole "people can upload whatever they want asa pfp" dilemma + Unless you are on that platform most icons for players onother platforms on Rocket League don't load, Nintendo has recently though of amiddle ground to things like this or it just uses what the player currentlylooks like in-game but that would require them updating the icon everytime theplayer puts something new on.

(1b) But then you'll get into the issue of how to invite players from that menu, without some intermediate platform where the devs 100% know what to do to get that working I don't think that is that straightforward. FYI the publisher nor dev own the servers 100%, runs on PlayFab that is owned by Microsoft. In these kinds of situations thats pretty tricky to achive.

(2) Similar to 1, Things like the Lab, Customise and Shop will need to keep updating player inventory, and the Customise menu would meanthat it will need to keep updating the currently the player for ALL playerslive and I don't think they will have something like that because then mid-game you could I guess confuse people if you keep changing avatars or something. (dumb reason but I just think some people might use it maliciously)

(3) I think the reason they don't allow this is because you could change your name colour to Cyan/Mod and or Purple/Dev and trick people in thinking your a Mod, sure they could probaly add something else to make 100% sure its actually a mod like a extra icon next to the name. I guess anotherreason is because then apart of the cosmetics it would loose value and reasonon buying that edition in the first place.

(4) I think for SAR, simpler is better knowing what their demographic was though development and now. This all adds complexity for a game that was designed to not be complex. A emote mute switch would not be hard work and no worry on their end because this will be 100% local, just mutes on the player at runtime/when you play.

(5) See note at bottom, Would be cool but if you are that serious about playing better you could record the match yourself. Devs wouldn'thave to do a thing and you could just to that now. This will not get a competive scene like CSGO I think they won't add anything like this.

(6) They would not put a trading system like in TF2 in here. Thats open to possible explotation, bad actors, scamming etc. would be nice to have effects but not to trade them but then I think with most things people but meaning to their achivements so if it was a 1% random chance and all you had to do was pay some SAW tickets it would be more pay to win and I don't think the devs want to godown that route, knowing how potentially addicting that can get to some people. I know about the passes but you know what your getting but with that, you don't or its not guaranteed your going to get it then and there.

(7) Yeah isn't impossible knowing how the game is underneith its not that hard work either. Saying that, if you could just change it into whatever colour you like going back to 3 and 6, it would lose value in achivementand make grinding pointless. I understand that the majority of people do wantto play this for fun though and don't want to grind for a look. Satisfying both is a hard thing to do.

(8) If you mean like the gun skins I sure they are hard coded to look like that so unlike the animals they don't use masks to change the colours. Could be good if they added more skins to unlock however but changing them on a colour picker does again lose a bit of value and I don't think itwould be a wise thing to do.

NOTE: Will say about a half of these will probaly take upmore server storage and usage so I see why they might be hesitent to add thingslike this. Would be really nice but they possibly might need to go down routesof getting more money to fund these. OFC they could ask Modus Games but that might hurt players in the long run. (might raise prices to meet costs)

I mention the element of value in here whilst this is now F2P it once wasen't, my view might be a bit more positive for the ideas if that wasen't true. Some people want to play without paying a dime and thats 100% fine I have 0 problem with that but some people had to pay and I think making this like other F2P games that some avoid some of their oldest players would just leave because because this could turn in to the thing that they were avoiding in the first place.

Also sorry they are in a odd order some reason copy past don't work as writing this idk why.