Actually yesterday morning I was talking with him during a call about blueprint options. One of the ideas I actually did pitch is mostly what you said - a new plotter or paper object that was used to snapshot a set amount of plots and save the data there. It would then get a number (like 1). Then you would use another to grab another set of plots - it becomes 2. Repeat… Then you go to the area you want and start pasting things in the order you want - 1 2 3… etc.
Most of the conversation I was focusing on was giving people an easy option to move. Unfortunately the more “advanced” ideas take a lot of coding and it is hard to justify the time since it only helps a small group of people. If people are willing to deal with the easier ideas that might cause more work for them or a solution that is iterated on over the course of many releases then I think we could move forward. But, it is still up to people getting the Devs to understand that we are ok with simple and small changes to give us the features instead of a perfect release. A lot of people that complain I think makes them very careful on what they release now.
If we did preview stuff they would have the develop that whole interface and stuff. That is a lot of work. We could have an option for the plot to just be auto-built for us. It would only be used for beacons that are moving in the context we were talking about.
I did ask in the forum here about if we had a chest to store a beacon would it need to be all the blocks in there or could it be a group of blocks at a time. That was another option that was discussed.