Revamp SImple Deform > Bend to be more like Simple Bend

As it is, I feel the bend function within the Simple Deform modifier is messy and terrible! Very unintuitive and can be quite tricky to work with! I recently discovered a relatively inexpensive ($8) addon called Simple Bend by Kushiro (on Gumroad and Blender Market).

While not perfect, I feel it's leaps and bounds ahead of vanilla Blender's execution! It is far more intuitive (and viewport interactive), making bending so much easier to user and understand (though if you wish to bend a central straight selection that is already part of a previous bend, you need to go into edge select and deselect two edges (one vertical, one horizontal) then reselect them for the addon to recognize the proper transform orientation (if there's an easier way, I'm not aware of it). But overall, I really like how this addon performs! If vanilla Blender's bend tool could be more like this, it would greatly enhance the bend capabilities!