5) A usability evaluation of a few of the most important LyX workflows to ferret out what trips up users.
6) A better left-side pane: replace the sort and keep checkboxes and slider with something usable. 7) A better left-side pane: replace the "filter" search box with a search across all types of lists (toc, figures, tables, etc.); make the search smart enough that the top-ranked results belong to whatever type of list is active in the UI, but also search across the other types. 8) Better support for bibliography managers (e.g., Zotero). LyZ is pretty brittle.