Well, since the concensus in my drafting lab is that AutoCAD is a pain-in-the-butt that sometimes seems designed to make you want to beat your head into the wall (if you've ever tried to hatch a bunch of objects into one single hatch, and had half of your selections ignored, you know what I mean), and that my proposal is "pretty reasonable", I won't worry too much about bothering the other established users, especially since what I wanted is just an option, not a re-working.
As for AutoCAD LT, yeah, I know, it's limited. Our lab uses everything from LT to Civil 3d, and LT just doesn't have the features that the "big-boy" software does. When I did my training on Mechanical Desktop, I learned to love features that make LT look like MS Paint. I will defer to your wisdom as someone who makes add-ons, but seriously, I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel here. My desired "fix" is not a big change, just an increase in functionality and customisation.