Hi Krankenheim. Thanks for the support, and especially for the feedback! I appreciate that it takes extra time to write your thoughts down.
First, have you been finding the "plant-o-vision" useful? This is a mode accessed by pressing "F" or "/" on the keyboard or the west button (X / Square) on a gamepad. When this is active, time is paused, and you can cycle through different seeds in your hotkey bar and see how they'd do on different parts of the farm. It will show the green arrows or red arrows for positive / negative growth. It doesn't let you move the player without exiting plant-o-vision mode, but it can let you scope out a good planting location.
I don't think I do a good job tutorializing that feature, but it may help out.