Advanced file browsing capabilities

I would like the Finder to improve on the way it can use extended attributes...
Currently, we can edit a property named "Spotlight Comments", which in reality is "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment".
In list mode we can make a column appear, with the values of those comments.
Basic functionality missing: in list mode, we can edit the file name, but we cannot edit the comments.
Advanced functionality missing: I would like to add user-defined columns. For example, when typing ⌘-J to have the options, the popup window could propose to create a new column, and store the value of column Toto in the extended attribute "com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderToto" (or use the OpenMeta framework).
Additional functionality: export to / import from csv of all these fields.
I guess that this will never appear in the Finder, but I want to ask anyway...

since this is a user-to-user forum, I guess your post is wrong here.
anyway, apple is known to leave certain advanced functionality/choices out to get a really easy-to-use and straightforward interface, so I guess your suggestions are not really the apple way to do it.
But I bet there are finder-alternatives out there who can do a lot of stuff, maybe you should look for something like that
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