Ive checked out the A7 templates since their release but have nowhere seen or heard of a "new panel system (an advertised feature)" nor do I see a new panel system anywhere advertised or in the forecast, so what are you talking about?

You must not be looking very close. If larry is working with doug to get them working in intense X then they are on the way. His other posts even indicate next release-which means they are in beta.

That's neither a new panel system, nor are this features which prevent you from making a game. You can't say the engine is incomplete because of such really nice improvements missing.

Ease of setup is an advertised feature. One may not use all the templates - but most use some default ones. Save/load, screen res options and so on. If your throwing out this ease of use as part of the package then hell one might as well use a free open source engine- afterall they run and are 'done' under such narrow terms.

That's just to me a dishonest way of saying the engine is usable. In fact A7 is a package deal and to dismiss just about all of them other than the acknex engine isn't saying it's done at all.