It would be useful to add a feature that can apply a crossfall and longitudinal fall to a pad design. In most civil earthworks situations, a pad will always have a slight, 1 to 2% fall to drain the site. The feature could also be applied to sporting fields in some circumstances (current situation I am trying to navigate using alignments and active strings).
I agree, this would be a useful, tidy feature. As you point out there is a long way round to do this, but it is always useful to have more than one way of doing something, IMO.