Proposal to make the shear tool more useful

The shear tool as it is now seems to not follow the path of the other tools in Blender that have become more easy to use with precision.(move, rotate and scale with basebpoint). I find myself often creating all sorts of additional geometry to help with this, or use shrinkwrap with vertex groups. I think this would be helpful for a lot of people and be more consistent with the other tools. My proposal is to change the shear tool to work in degrees and to be able to snap with shear like in the example above.