Just like you can launch any of your steam games from one client, it would be nice to update and launch from one Zylon client as well. As for fusing the channels I honestly feel like that would be neat just for the sole reason that you don't have to close and relaunch.
They could allocate the third channel to connect to the bots dedicated server and not the bc server. I think people are just so used to being skeptical and saying that "it's too much work" though in reality there are so many possibilities.
Sure only few will ever see the light of day, but it's bold suggestions like this that we need