Actually, when I'm a player I find that samples are a huge source of frustration for me. I'm not even sure why. But even then I can acknowledge the necessity of them, and I'm wondering if that's a common observation or if that's even the slightest bit slanted from my experience as a mod. I believe it's probably pretty common though.
Mmm. Really good point on the relationships. Trying to monitor the character profile (as opposed to the app) seems tedious to me though, if not a little bit too forceful. So I'll strike it from the application entirely and leave my hand in things at that.