@ipselute I totally agree its come a long way and I'm sure it will get there. The issue is with Autodesk forcing the use of Advance Steel to do the fabrication/shop drawing work which in my opinion has a poor output. By trade I'm a Timber Frame Designer using Horizon add-on to produce Manufacturing drawings for Prefabricated Panels, Metal Web Joists and Floor Cassettes (https://www.wolfsystem.co.uk/software/horizon-software/design,-visualise-and-document.aspx). However sometimes we need to design Steel within the structure and we can design it within Revit using structural beams and columns and model in place families. If you manually combine these elements into an assembly you can produce fantastic drawings. See below example.
If the Structural Connections could be added to the assembly most of the manually modeled in place families would not be required. If it automatically created these drawings with Dimensions etc. then even better.
My biggest grief is being sold advanced steel under the impression it would speed up our workflow with a dynamic link between the 2 bits of software. This only partly works and manually created connections do not currently (as far as I am aware) come back into Revit. Our company may be pretty unique with this but our add-on software uses structural framing elements so the link also scans thousands of items within the Revit file when trying to re-import(synchronize) and often runs out of memory. Our best solution has been to explode the Advance Steel objects then export to a .SAT file.