I never send a query without having to expand this section. It adds a step to every single opertaion, which is tiresome. It save about three lines of space. It would save a lot of time and be less annoying if there was an option to just leave this section open by default. I also alwyas want to display the data as table rows instead of josn or documents. Same deal here, it would be nice not to be forced to use the deafult MongoDB idea here - the views are available already so it would be nice to save a lot fo additional clicks.

These sound like small things, but its the small things that make a big difference! As someone who is generally GUI adverse and sticks to terminal tools I acknoweledge powerful Compass is. Making it configurable to different workflows via settings would make it even better