recently Cornoa has been making improved Bitmap module in materials, new camera and other stuff that are more user friendly than what 3DS Max has to offer.
Have you considered improving/making a new Output module in Materials as well? I mean personally I always felts it has a very confuzing interface with the curve editor being really badly implemented with over complex amount of buttons to make the simplest adjustments.
Having a Hue saturation slider, and a curve editor like the one in Corona renderer would have been amazing in my opinion and making it much faster to work with.
Just a suggestion :)