I thought I would bring this open-type interface initiative to your attention. The type community is going to lobby Adobe very hard to improve their open-type interface. It seems to me that Affinity Designer can probably do a better job here. The information about this can be found here:
http://ilovetypography.com/2014/10/25/why-a-better-opentype-user-interface-matters/
And designers are starting to mock up the interface methods that they'd like to see; something to look to for inspiration, perhaps.
Cheers, Peter.
A great feature with Illustrator (and Cinema 4D too) is the ability to interactively manipulate individual characters (eg. size, kerning, rotation...). It would be great to have a such feature across all your apps.
Great work, keep on going!