Hi Burr, so basically what it comes down to is that there is also some value in each command being simple and easy to use...

A lot of nested options within commands can tend to bring complexity into the command as well, so options kind of have to "pull their weight" - they kind of need to deliver something more convenient than just replacing using the Transform > Copy command for example...

One thing that would kind of fit the workflow that you are describing would be if you could copy a logical "feature" - that would be something like select the hole and then use the Copy command and have it actually copy the hole to new spots to make new holes rather than just replicating raw geometry. There are some direct modelers that can work like this, like SpaceClaim. It requires quite a lot of fairly difficult stuff to implement though, stuff like feature recognition and maybe some more complexity in how to do selections. So that's probably not in the cards for MoI anytime too soon.

- Michael