This is not about "prettiness" or "cosmetic" issues, this is about usability, and PM fails horribly at that.

Well said++

Unfortunately, you're just pissing in the wind.

The 'Queen bee hereabouts has "no time" to make major changes; and no incentive to allow others to do so.

Like the proverbial Prima Donna; there is no incentive to train an understudy. Nor even to facilitate that training.