Oh well, chalk it up to growing pains, it happens. Hopefully they will return!
It would be nice if you added a "Rules Backup" button which would dump the rules to a plain text file on the user's computer. Then they could save them, and even edit the text file (which might be easier than clicking all the GUI buttons for bulk updates), then re-import it as needed.
We have actually talked about this, and it is in the plan once we are done with this phase!
Awesome, glad to see you guys are thinking ahead!