+1 to both options! I really love the portraits and adventure plates, but these would definitely be an improvement.

Anything that makes you have to hit the “register to gearset” button will break the portrait, and some weird things seem to affect that. Not just materia melding, but materia extraction (spiritbond)… why? Not sure if the problem is with the gearset code, or how the portrait system reads gearsets, but either way it would be a nice QoL fix.