Oh shoot… I totally missed the point. The first quote from your msg was about 30+ CMS Items.
As of the Alt Tags, we have that on our roadmap, but no eta on that one either. I’ll see if I can bump this one up, but can’t promise anything 
I understand how frustrating it can be to tell the client “it’s a workaround” – been there before. At this point however, it’s the possible solution (workaround) until a native solution is available.
Cheers,
Bart