Chelle, I think I understand exactly what you're asking for and I agree with the need.
It's true: I'm going to revamp this feature. And that's a good thing. Often I'll make a feature and make it someone barebones until I see whether it really is used or not. If it's used a lot, then I'll go back and add more bells and whistles in line with what it seems is needed.
Recommendations is being used a lot and I'm really happy about that. And this means that we now need a lot of things added to it to bring it up to a world class feature.
It's coming, very soon.