Reminders app - lacking important functionality

Dear Apple (if you're listening). The Reminders app for OSX and for iOS is nice and fast and seems to sync well. I've been using Wunderlist for my to-do lists, but don't need a lot of the functionality and it sometimes has syncing problems. I'd like to replace it with "Reminders". But ...
How is is possible that there's no way to move items between lists?! How could this essential feature possibly be left out? No drag/drop or other way to move items. You can to actually delete it and add it again to another list ... come on!
Other things that should be added:
- sub items/tasks
- notes shown after clicking on item, not directly below the item title ... as adding long notes will disrupt an otherwise clean list
- ability to chose type of alert for a reminder ... like playing a sound!
You'd think will all that money that Apple's making they would put a little more effort into these apps.

To answer my own question: the sorting functionality is disabled (probably by design) in the "Today" list (not in the normal lists)...

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