Thanks for this information. I’ve taken this valuable feedback and put it into a community update presentation that I’ll send to a guy I know at Ricoh that is a influential with the THETA development.
The key information from you that I am highlighting is to get better editing compatibility with Lightroom, Affinity, ACDsee using RAW information for noise reduction, sharpening, shadows/highlights, fixing purple fringing/chromatic aberration.
This makes the goal more specific as it is focused on common tools used by photographers and specific techniques to improve the final image quality.