Usability improvements (meta issue)

[flobernd]

# Priority: High
- [ ] #8350
- [ ] #8215
- [ ] #8002
- [ ] #7792

# Priority: Medium
- [ ] #8355
- [ ] #8339
- [ ] #8242
- [ ] #8013
- [ ] #7812
- [ ] #7716

# Priority: Low
- [ ] #8358 
- [ ] #8357
- [ ] #8335
- [ ] #8338
- [ ] #8344
- [ ] #8349
- [ ] #8227
- [ ] #8191
- [ ] #8173
- [ ] #8150
- [ ] #7970
- [ ] #7886
- [ ] #7740

# Priority: Triage / Rejected
- [ ] #8194

[niemyjski]

@flobernd Is there any eta for any of these to be addressed? I don't have the available bandwidth to open some pr's at least in the short term.

[niemyjski]

This list might need to be migrated, warnings from github