Well, dox suggested a change to short names (now in awgrover/midi)! He’s more familiar with the MIDI world.
Nope! Vertical stacking gives more room, but is that the best for graph-style programming? We just have to try variations till we get it right, I guess.
Seems promising. I think rhino/grasshopper does something like that (their labels are very terse!).
Thanks for the constructive discussion.