When creating footprints from scratch (when needed) it would be nice to be able to pattern pads to a given X Y dimension. For instance: for a 288 pin BGA chip (just an example, not actually needing to do this right now) it would be useful to click "Pin Array" icon. A popup opens, that asks how many pins in the X direction and how many in the Y direction. It asks for pad spacing in X and Y direction as well. It asks for a naming convention on pin numbers as well (left to right, right to left, top to bottom, bottom to top, etc).