Support more columns in the gantt view

Hello Community -

I love the Gantt view, but do not understand why it does not support all of the fields the table view does.  I would think it would be a natural for generation of a PDF formatted report such as I requested in an an earlier post (Executive Reporting).  Even something prevents it from being printable, it would still make for a better presentation to have the ability to display and filter on the fields I need, rather than those the designer decides upon.

The sort can be problematic too - it would be great to have a multi-column sort capability so that the Folder levels could sort alpha while the associated tasks could sort by state (e.g. workflow phase).

These features would go a long way in reducing time to produce executive level presentations.

Thank you!