I agree that this is annoying as all get-out. It really messes with me when I'm running through an area with little cover, and I try to quickly scan my surroundings as I run. With the "whatever" they have applied to freelook, it feels as bad and unresponsive as a massive fps drop. Not all of us can afford, or even necessarily want to use, Track-IR. A similar ticket was previously closed, because one of the developers deemed it "too disorienting" to have your view snap back to the center upon the freelook button depress. I can assure the developers that, for me at least, the inability to finely and precisely control my head in freelook is much more disorienting, not to mention that it needlessly hinders my ability to play the game in certain circumstances.

If you want to work on one side while someone else works on the other, you can create separate missions, and then merge them in the editor, I believe.

Group editing would be beyond fantastic. The ability to change elevation on a large quantity of objects would make base building much less time-consuming.