Visual Expression Builder - preferably not in Query Builder

This is not really a request - but a request that something is not implemented.

So far the new visual features haven’t been applied to the query builder. I imagine changes might be planned, but I think it would make the query builder much more difficult to use.

I quite often have queries with many expressions and conditions - perhaps as many as 60 or 70. In many cases similar expressions are used and copy/pasting between fields is by far the quickest method of creating such queries. Creating the same queries via the UI would be very time-consuming and frustrating, eg in this extract from a query with lots of expressions using the split function:

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If it becomes impossible to use copy/paste, I’ll probably prefer to edit the PHP files directly, but this is more error-prone.