It's needed... and it's also not going to be me who builds it! Word is that @peakd is working on some kind of variation of this. Which makes sense, since they have the best usability of any of our existing front ends... and on the occasions where I do point people to Hive, that's where I send them.
RE: Building the Hive Community: The Importance of Overcoming the "It's too complicated!" Argument