It would be even better if Waves could do a D-clone, that would actually capture dynamics
from an outboard compressor, all with it’s character: harmonic distortion, transients, eq curve
as it is, and maybe an option to have the picture of the harware inside the GUI that we had catured, and a notepad to insert the values we had set up on the hardware. We could use our 500 rack chains or outboard compressors and pres, multiple times ITB 
You could checkmate UAD-s ars in one move, get all the fans of hardware again by your side, and loose
all the mambo-jumbo plugins that u know already that, honestly, nobody uses. Possibly, look into a paid subscription, just like Slate and not a one time fee, so that way you could focus onto creating plugins that people actually need and request from you.
I am using the Q Clone Since about 15 years now. Still can’t let this go
My first capture was an old MCI Eq ( Think it was JH500 or something)
The midrange in that is still my fav. Actually my personal opinion is THD, harmonic saturation etc. of analog gear is a little overrated. This captures the filters without them but the filters themselves sound so good!!
would love an update but its radical as it is. For me at least 
While I don’t use this myself, if they were actually make the improvements as you suggest I think that would definitely make me a fan.
Being able to a add pic and/or text to archive preserve a copy of the settings that you captured would also be great idea in my opinion.