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I have a feeling this is going to go over like a lead balloon. Sigil is an e-pub editor. Not a reader.
That said, I agree with you on a lot of your points. In my (very limited) experience, the e-pub readers are pretty bad about the fidelity with which they display e-books. On my PC, I have a pretty specific use for e-pub reading. Generally, I use it in my classes to display news articles with accompanying audio to help my students improve their listening as well as reading comprehension. (I teach English as a second language.) For that, Calibre worked, then didn't work. Because of that, I have "frozen" my Calibre at 2.71 (he's up to 2.84 now) because there was multimedia support in that one which disappeared in later versions.
I've tried other e-pub readers on my PC, and I haven't found anything that occupied my hard drive for more than a few minutes.
But most of my e-pub reading is done on my Android devices--either my phone, or more frequently my tablet. The same problems crop up there--Moon+, while actually being my preferred reading app, is lousy at presenting the text as the publisher (ehem! usually me) designed it. But it does properly support multimedia, both audio as well as video. Gitden Reader is great at fidelity, but has no support for multimedia. (And rightly so. E-Pub2 isn't designed to support multimedia, from what I understand.)
Maybe one day, there'll be a consensus, but I doubt it.
Now, while we're blue-skying, I'll put in my request. As an obsessive-compulsive proofreader, as I'm reading an e-book on my Android device, whenever I spot a typo, I just have to bookmark it for later repair on my PC. I'd love to see a Sigil-app that would allow me to make those corrections directly on my device.
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