1. Stay tuned. We've received a lot of feedback on that. We do look at the Windows Feedback app reports; it's all automated, so once something gets upvoted enough it gets routed to the feature team.

2. I'm personally working on all apps list improvements. I don't know if I can share details yet until we push stuff out to Insiders.

One UI feature that makes dealing with the narrow list a little easier is the jump list that pops up when you click one of the letter headers. It's just one of these bad boys: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/window...