Brian (bemfarmer), I hope you do find the script useful! Seems like we both had the same need for a view manager of some kind.

With regards to what you originally posted about having a view that's oriented exactly like one of the orthographic views, you can edit the .views.json file manually and put in specific values to get a precise camera and target view. In the example below, the target is located at the XYZ origin but the camera is located 250 units above the XY plane, yielding a camera view like the Top orthographic view.

Example:

{
    "version": "0.1",
    "views": [
        {
            "name": "Top",
            "camera": "0,0,250",
            "target": "0,0,0"
        }
    ]
}