1. Communauté
2. Product Feedback
3. [Status: Not planned] Convert a Task into a Project

Your short term roadmap is wrong, and needs to be changed. Either that or these forums are a waste of all our time. 

1. Communauté
2. Product Feedback
3. Assign a task based on its folder/project (default task owner)

I just found the keyboard shortcut control + shift + . (period) will assign a task to yourself. I've tried it once and it worked, but not sure of limitations such as what level view you need to be ...