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As for title, author, and language, that is fine for epub 2, but order is significant and an expanded title might be more useful or mean more in epub3, author order matters, language order matters, title order matters so leaving them at the top alone and not part of the table to be moved around would not work. Preventing their deletion also makes no sense as a user may want to start fresh and deleting it may be the easiest option.
I am hoping making the output more readable is doable. And maybe adding a check for basics and warning the user on exit they are missing key pieces is doable, but keeping those items separate and not delete-able is too restrictive for epub3.
And I know people love epub2, but with the intl push in books especially in Europe and Japan means epub2 days are numbered if not already gone. Epub3 will eventually dominate. So supporting epub3 metadata well is definitely the goal for Sigil. And, Doitsu's Epub2Metadata Plugin covers epub2 metadata quite well already.
So I will take a shot at making the current editor be more human readable and add a warning telling people if they are missing the basic 3 and giving them a chance to rectify that which they will be ready to override at will.
Once I have something, we can post a few test builds for people to feed back on.
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