Customize Orion dashboard like web-base report

I'd counter that to a user the web based report layout workflow is quite confusing at first.  I know I and nearly everyone I've worked with have definitely struggled at first with the Web Based Report layout feature.  Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love it and I'm with you, but I think there is a better way. 

Have you seen this?: Radically Improved Dashboard View Customization Workflow (You need to join the NPM Beta here before you can click on that link.).  I think they are heading in the right direction and they have a better solution than the web based layout feature, although I would like the ability to have a different amount of columns per section like the web based report layout feature has.