Hi Mike,

For this part:
> Also, I'm unable to change the Style color or change the visibility on object outlines for objects that
> are grouped as a whole, not without drill-selecting into the group or Ungrouping the set. A feature?
>
> [ah... you can change the Style if you select the yellow dot for each individual sub-object.
> When you change the style of the whole group object, the Style swatch up top says that it has
> the new color, but the objects themselves remain unchanged.]

It's a bug - so if you select a group and then set the style by clicking on a color swatch in the Styles section
of the scene browser, it will set the style of all objects in the group.

If you set the style by using the Style menu in the upper right properties panel (the area with the Details...
button) that has different behavior and is currently only setting the style assigned to the group parent
object alone and not any sub objects which has no visible effect and then makes visibility behave a little
weird too.

I'll fix this up to make assigning with the style menu behave the same as how assigning by scene browser
swatch click works currently.

Thanks for reporting this, groups are a major structural change so there's quite a lot of things that need to
be tweaked to handle them better. Hopefully it should be in good shape with the next beta.

- Michael