Inadequate Lightning to SD Card operation

I recently bought an iPad (4) with Retina display for two reasons, one to be able to take my photos with me on the road, and also to be able to view video I shot on a camera equipped with an SD card. And it has failed in both categories. In fact I am seriously considering selling the device, as I am deeply disappointed with it.
Firstly, when the photos I had organised on my PC into carefully organised folders with the filename as a photo description, are imported into the iPad through iTunes, it is done without preserving the folder structure and at the same time throwing away the filename description I had given it. So my 6,000 odd photos are now grouped in a few folders, but mostly lumped into those folders without any sub-folder identification. As for the names, everything is now known as '371 of 673' or such and not able to be properly identified.
I tried buying iPhoto, which allows me to put a tag on the photo, or name, but the tag is not displayed in the resident 'Photos' app, only when displayed using the iPhoto app. Yes, I could add a tag to my photos, but doing 6,000 odd photos is not even thinkable. Why do the Apple software programmers not think that painstakingly created sub-folders and filenames are important? I have been programming computers since programming was done on paper tape, and I would never ignore these factors when writing software.
The second reason was to be able to view the video footage I shot on a good display, so I bought the Lightning to SD Card adapter cable. When you connect an SD card, it appears to look for a 'DCIM' directory or such on the SD card and then shows you the files in that directory. Fine. But when I insert a card from a semi-professional camera that uses a slightly more complex directory structure, the iPad claims the media is unsupported. REad that as 'we could not find anything in the DCIM directory'. Why not show the folders on the card and give the user the option of selecting which folders they believe the material is located in, then remember that for next time? I know the files are there, and I know where they are located in the directory structure, but iPad gives up on it and it becoes yet another shortcoming for the device.

With the camera connection kit for older iPads SDXC cards won't be recognised if they are formatted as exFAT, and I assume that the same things applies to the lightning to SD reader - from http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4101 :
SDXC (supported only when not formatted as ExFAT)
I assume that the smaller card is not exFAT formatted, so that works ok

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