Gang, I know — the settings page can be rough at times. There is a lot of knobs and whistles and it is somehow both overwhelming and confusing, a little like getting lost in a jungle of poorly-styled text boxes. We're working on it, slowly and steadily!
Some of these changes are big ones — like adding the minimap to the right of the page. Some of them are small, like this: we've added a bona fide CSS input widget to the settings page. Gone are the days of having to futz around with an unstyled textarea
component: you now get syntax checking, undo/redo support, autocomplete, and more.
There's more to come, I promise — but these tiny little improvements add up.