Infopath to design WYSIWYG Custom List Views on 2013

We are migrating to SPO 2013. Playing with InfoPath 2013.
I know it's dieing, but InfoPath has always frustrated me. Some much potential yet so out of touch with what users seem to need IMO. Far from user friendly enough to let users maintain their own forms too IMO.
But really my biggest gripe with SharePoint in general is that it misses the mark with Custom lists and Views.
Why doesn't SharePoint and/or InfoPath address the need for more flexibility and Design options in the Custom List View. My users are constantly looking to build View pages that to reflect paper forms they use to have. They always seem to
have to settle for the way the list view looks. InfoPath does not seem to address Read Only Views of List Data ??
- No List Mode (View vs Edit)
- No Label control
- Field Names do not display unless you hover over the control.
- No WYSIWYG drag and drop designer - only grid cells.
- No easy or clear way to get URL Query string values
- No way to build complex expression fields, say I want to build a URL Link using some list field data and the ID from the URL query string on the form? Possible?
- Better/easier way to join and bind in multiple Lists and multiple data sources?
One other challenge we have is that SSRS can't be integrated into SPO and is being dropped from Azure. The SSRS designer is leaps and bounds better than InfoPaths IMO.
Considering SPO 2013, might there be another product or IDE coming in (maybe FoSL) that will address all of these? How about Visio, Excel, PDF
Thank You.

Thank You for your response.
A little of both :) ... But am very interested in hearing about practical development options. But the catch is that we are waiting to see if something shows up that will enable users to build these views without development.
I have been seeing new Apps show up on the o365 store that look promising, but none of them are quite there yet IMO ... like Ninetex forms, Lightning Data Viewer, BlackCompass Data Viewer, List Designer, OData query Builder. We've
actually demoed every single one of them.
We have also been playing with oData Connections from Excel and Visio web Access Web parts. We can't get Data connections to refresh from Excel apparently unless we buy Power BI and we are still trying to figure out Visio on SPO.
I know we can create a SharePoint 2013 App that binds in SPO List data and use .NET controls to arrange them on a page. But that would put a developer and a deployment process in front of that View. We can also use SSRS and create a one row report
- but SPO does not support integrated SSRS and we would have to authenticate on-Prem SSRS against ADFS which we have not yet configured here.

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