Batch schedule improvements

This is an old request that contains a number of different suggestions. This probably pre-dates the rule of one request per thread (hence it wasn’t enforced at the time), but this currently has no votes, and this is likely because it’s not clear what is being asked for (or what votes would count towards).

For these reasons I’m closing this now, but if anyone is still looking for the suggestions in this thread, please do feel free to open fresh requests for the specific requests that you’re looking for. Thank you.