OK thanks for the confirmation. Don't worry about the dev time, the most useful thing for us to hear is what the features are that people really want to use. Those ones will get priority.
I assume you know you can turn off the visibility of all of the icons on the battleground.
To be honest, the visualization of the battle onto the player's window is a little tricky and will likely need an overhaul to support animated maps anyways, so that may takea while. Editing the map directly should be pretty straight-forward, but I'll need to figure out how to make it work properly.