Missing features in iTunes 11

Well, I hope the nice folks at Apple will let me post this message now that I am excluding any criticism of Apple or iTunes 11.
I have come across workarounds in the Support Communities for some functions missing in iTunes 11 , but not for these two:
• The ability to view, sync, and export (entire) playlists in shuffled order
• Cover Flow
If anyone knows of workarounds, other than the complex use of smart playlists to create a shuffled playlist every time you want to reshuffle, could you please post that info? Otherwise, does anyone know of any plugins existing or in development that will restore these functions?

Actually it would be nice if they had PDF manuals for their software - and now - kept the off line help (already gave them feedback on that).
Sometimes they do great things - just don't let you know - I had to remove MJ's Black or White from play lists because the beginning almost gave me a heart attack when it came up while I was sleeping -- post here about truncating songs for ACC brought to my attention - somewhere along the line they added what I needed - So I could cut out the beginning of that song - and some applause and commentary around some others - happy days.

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