@ambivalence and anyone else interested in this wish. I welcome your help simplifying this wish. I’m not the most advanced Play user but I think I know this instrument fairly well by now, and I have to keep re-reading the wish to understand what it is asking for (and I am not succeeding). Many points on Writing a good feature request are relevant here.
Please focus on one thing. Try to make a self-explanatory title about it, and explain it in a simple and concise way. Without this pat accomplished, providing more details and examples just adds more confusion, imho.