@slspencer I’m not real sure where my mind took a different train here.
As far as making it more obvious, the recent renaming of the first mode to “Draft” may be as far as it’s reasonable to go on that front without including such a note in tutorials.
As far as different outfit pieces per draft block. There are a myriad of tiny reasons, but the most stable reason is that it makes it easier to add a measurement to one part based on a measurement found by drafting a different part. It would also help with taking advantage of a “tree sort” algorithm, if/when that’s implemented.
As far as putting whole outfits into one VAL, it seems that it would make it easier to keep track of where the disparate pieces were, especially when used with setups like thumbeliya mentioned wanting in Automating loading measurements and exporting.