I agree with your first point, I would really love to see a "modern" distribution method for the PowerShell tools - being available in the PSGallery, for example, would make it a lot easier to use the modules than having to manually install a Toolkit, or (in the case of VSC) download the entire ISO to dig the module out. I, unfortunately, don't have the power to change it, but for what it's worth I agree with you. 🙂
For your second point, can you clarify on what you mean by "monitor controls"? Can you give me an example of a use case that you'd like to be able to solve with the VSC cmdlets?