I agree with all of your suggestions.

Some of my own:

Item sort can't come soon enough.

Remove instance timers. Or at least make them more reasonable so as to allow for moments when things do not go smoothly.

Make weapons and armor more unique.

Add a cosmetic panel for our character's appearance. I am so sick of having to run around in tights...

Give us the option to turn off the default battle music. It gets very old after awhile, and I rather like a lot of this game's landscape music. I rather listen to that while I fight.

Give us more retainers. We need them.

Get rid of all of these annoying forum restrictions.