Folders in After Effects timeline

For the love of God, this question is from 2019 and summer of 2021 we still don't have this simple fix. Really hoping Adobe can address this.

Agreed - why is this absent from After Effects?

I just want to organize my layers without doing precomposition/merging/whatever.

It's kind of a no brainer, like 15 years ago. 😕😕

To be honest I’d happily pay for a plug-in to enable this.

Obviously I shouldn’t have to, but it would revolutionise my workflow.

Indeed a quick improvement of the application. And that would really be something, if adobe actually listened to the users that already pay the subscription. I do not hope that Adobe will fulfill this improvement like they do in illustrator. To edit curves other than like 30 years ago you have pay for a plugin...

Oh please, do this!

Seems we are being totally ignored here. How can this be put more directly...?

Adobe, why is adding such a simple function and at the same time significantly improving the animation process such a difficult challenge for you? Neither precomposition nor shy layers are the solution when it comes to sorting out a mess with multiple layers. To avoid chaos and a headache, the timeline must allow you to group selected layers and open only the selected ones with one click, without going into a separate composition.

Seconded ('A-Millionthed').

Please do this, or at least adress why it's something you're unwilling to implement.

Guys, we all beg you, we pay montly, just listen to the crowd, its the best you could do...