Folders in After Effects timeline

I heard that the entire AE dev team is like 15 people or less. It's not their fault, but it answers some questions as to why Adobe CC isn't a professional suite of tools any more. 

+1 This has been suggested many times in the last 9-10 years. Hopefully that's long enough for someone to notice :).

Sander V. went so far as to make an entire microsite demonstrating ideas to make this tool meed the demands of modern users. Curiously many useful discussions from that time were lost when UserVoice was 'migrated'. 🙂

Those ideas emerged almost 10 years ago. The community's amazing ideas are all out there but of course we have to wait for someone internally to come up with a fun sounding "rebrand" to make modernizing performance into a 'new feature' that can be promoted to gain more subscribers.

Agree that basic enhancement to workflows and QoL updates should be standard not paid add-ons. Recent issues with Ray Dynamic Color in AE 2024 come to mind, Adobe blames the developer, developer blames Adobe, Adobe blames Windows devs...???...paid plugin not working, users stuck and no one can provide a solution except to "Try the Beta..." which is fine except using the BETA in production is terrible advice. Not all of us work on Adobe's glacial timelines so we make do.

But that's the cycle we get to live with. To be an AE user in 2024, eh?

Modernize layer management, please.

Part of me thinks they're going to stop updating AE completely and let it become legacy software. 

They can't even fix simple UI bugs and you wish they added something far more useful.
They are either ignorant or lack of human resources. I can't find more explanations.

Please we need this!

Folders already exist in the project tab, so maybe someone could simply copy them into the timeline and create a basic hide UI? Technically, it would be an infinitely duplicated "shy button" feature with tagging ability.

Yes this would also be great for parenting. It is such a mess how parenting is right now - its like looking in the yellow pages for an phone number or address. Also you have no indication if a layer has a child. 

Please ADD that feature!

working in AE IS such a pain without it...

Credit to him, but I feel like with thousands I've paid to Adobe over the years, I shouldn't have to pay another $100 dollars to a third party to get basic functionality

This guy has fixed that problem: [Workflower](https://aescripts.com/workflower/).
He is Prometheus