Scatter plot is broken and useless

In all, numbers is quite nice, but the scatter plot seems to be a last minute panic addition. It is basically unusable.
1. There is only one range field even though there are two axes. And the range field affects both axes at once(!) Very interesting when your x range is 0..1 and y -1000..1000 for instance. You can not have different number of steps on the different axes either.
2. There doesn't seem to be any way to add lines between the points. Come on, how hard could that be?
3. This one requires no words: http://www.csc.kth.se/~ol/numbers.png (hint, look closely at the x axis)

Actually, with #1 you can set the 2 axes limits etc separately, Apple just didn't make the way it works very clear. If you want to change the X limits only you have to click the text field containing the X axis labels just below the axis. After that, if you edit the limits in the inspector you'll only change the X. Same goes for changing Y. If you have the whole figure selected it changes both. Not a very clear way to design it, but it does let you do it...
Now as for 2 and 3..... not good. Numbers definitely needed more time in the oven.
To scatter plot gripes I'd also add:
4) Scatter plots require paired columns of X and Y but several sets of Y values can't share one column of X data in numbers. If several sets of Y values share one set of X values you still have to copy the X column to pair it with each Y column which bloats your spreadsheets with a lot of redundant data.
5) Plots including date/time values on the X axis don't work properly. It just seems to treat all time values as 0.
6) No ability to do regression lines on a scatter plot.
7) Scatter plots can only work with data organized into columns, they don't work for data in rows.
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