My company is sending a representative to NI Week to meet with some head honchos from NI on possible improvements and suggestions. I have added what you are asking for to the list of what will be discussed. In addition to property nodes, I am asking for documentation of all methods. I've seen a large TestStand poster that lists API calls, properties and methods, and such. I think the same ought to be done with Labview. Of course that poster would be humongous. Any kind of document would suffice. I am anxiously awaiting the outcome of this meeting.
Many other items are on the list, including some issues that were brought up in this forum. I have asked for a way to "comment out" sections of code without having to use a case structure set to false with all the wiring changes. Another item I asked for was a wizard to automatically generate the basic code for some architectures, like producer-consumer, state machine (simpler that using the state machine toolkit), and such. Many others here have joined in to make suggestions, too numerous to list them all here.