Animation rant

Ok, this is for the animation crowd, inside discussion on work flow and software..
I have been used to Dreamworks' proprietary software for animation called EMO.. Granted there are some issues with Emo but in all I came to really like th graph editor..  NOW I am back with Maya 2011
and its driving me crazy..  WHat would take me only moments takes me a life time with Maya's graph editor.. I have to constantly adjust the curves with the bezier like handles.. The curves NEVER behave correctly right off the bat like they do with EMO and what takes me one click in EMO takes me 9 clicks in Maya!!  Dios Mio!!.
so in all my progress is slowed down by almost half..  Or at least it seems like it..  I want to get faster but it is impossible with this archaic graph editor..  Just picking and isolating the curves to edit is a pain in the arse.. 
Next is not having phoneme mouth shapes.. I have to recreate the mouth shapes each time by drawing it out..  I mentioned this in a meeting and it seems like they like the idea and will create a library.. If they do this the workflow for blocking in phoneme shapes for the mouth will accelerate at least three times..There are so many ways to speedup the work flow with the correct software fixes and plugins it would be worth it to make those changes..

Bezier handles up the wazoo.. you have to edit each one!!  Well sort of -- for the most part.