gcellison, thank you for the critique.

The Name gallery is unchanged in XDPXv17 and has been in other Pro version through v5 to date.
The one I like most is the Slices aspect in the Name gallery as this allows you to transform and change shape, when you change a linked other shape.

As you surmise, a lot of innovation that seems now to have been squandered.
The question I pose is XDPX worth upgrading to to get these extras?
I find it sad that someone's job is to cut out functionality to repacking the remainder into a "web" or a "photo" product.

Acorn