Well I will be damned, I never knew about those but just by looking at that Google search I can see so many obvious ways to improve my own system, I feel sad just thinking about it T_T
I did experiment with having a preview overlay when hovering over a cell with your pointer, however adapting that behaviour for touch screens would have meant a two steps, tap-and-confirm selection, and my messy code was already bursting at the seams at that point... Now that I am getting feedback about it, I feel dumb for not leaving that feature in.
Audio is probably my biggest weakness; that could be a nice thing to research for next year :-)