FWIW, I use this feature in PT2 every day and consider it essential. The current alternatives are to messy and time consuming. This is one of several of the PT2 features I have been waiting for before buying PT3.
And, no, I will not write a custom report to implement any functionality that was in PT2 that is not in PT3. That's the developer's job if this is truly going to be a replacement for PT2.
I think this is where the effort should be going rather than adding completely new features, such as EV.