Thanks for the info. Just to clarify the issue with the miner processes: the software still shows a miner panel as being active for a card even though the underlying process has exited. Are there any crashes reported for those cards in the error logs/Output panel or does this occur when the software is switching algorithms?  Does the software start another process for the affected cards (so multiple panels are visible for the same card) or is it just that one panel for each card?

Have you tried using a different miner for Neoscrypt. You could manually change the preferred miner to the second fastest miner instead of disabling the algorithm all together. Similarly, you may want to change the preferred miner for lyra2v2 to Nanashi or something newer due to the age of ccminer-phi.  Enough people have had problems with the older variants of ccminer that I am leaning towards disabling them by default
in a future release.

I understand your frustration abut the configuration issues. As a developer it can be a challenge to accomodate different types of users - especially in an area such as this that is so dependent on third-party tools and services. You might want try using just one pool to start out with to determine which algorithms work best on your cards and then maybe enable another pool or two after a couple of days. This will allow you to build bigger shares in new coins even though you will still be switching algorithms based on estimated earnings.  Based on feedback from this thread and elsewhere, a lot of new users prefer Blaze, but I still think smaller pools can offer comparable returns for people who don’t mind slower payouts. However, it can take a while to evaluate their performance due to the slower rate at which they mine new coins.