i get a strong feeling that most these feature reports barley get looked at and the main focus is the bug report forum fixing some fancy $regsub identifier that returns something ambigious when used in a certain manner which may affect one in a thousand users
That would be an unfair and uninformed feeling. If you take a look at
versions.txt for example, you'll see that most fixes/additions are GUI/display-related or involve general (non-scripting) IRC-related features.
Those are the priority, as you'll no doubt agree that there are more mirc users than dialog scripters.
Dialogs are indeed popular, but there are dlls (MDX, DCX) that pretty much allow you to do anything with dialogs, so I really don't see why additional dialog features are so much of a priority. Even some "fancy $regsub" fix would be more important than a new dialog feature imo, because there is no substitute for the former.
