[Question] Possible to restore Vista's file stacking?

One of my favourite features from Windows Vista was its new way of searching for an organising files, called "Stacking." Unlike Grouping, which organises files into collapsible drop-down tabs, stacking allows you to organise files into stacks, which look and behave like folders, except these "folders" group the files by metadata properties, making it MUCH easier to organise and search content.

For example, stacking image files by dimension would give you "folders" that each contain all the files of the same dimension, so you'd have a stack for 1920 x 1080, one for 640 x 480 and so on.

Here's an example of one using camera models:

You could also enter one stack and group all the files in that stack by another stack, so you could enter your 1920 x 1080p stack and then stack all of that stack's files by camera model, etc. You can't do this with grouping.

Finally, stacking can even take the files in subfolders and include them in the stack, which you also can't do with grouping.

Unfortunately, Windows 7 killed this feature, and after looking at beta builds of 7, I found they killed it in a very stupid and lazy way.

They replaced it with "Arrange by," which is USELESS for the following reasons:

The only improvements that 7 added to the stack option was to include thumbnails of the files in each stack, just like the Personalisation page does with themes that have multiple wallpapers, but that's it. Everything else is a downgrade.

I find myself needing this stack feature every single day and hate that MS made it useless.

I made a video ranting about this and the search pane removal, if my explanation so far still hasn't been clear enough (sorry): www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_93Y_NctWo&t=704s

When looking at even the public release beta of Windows 7, the stacking option still existed alongside the arrange by option, which leads me to believe that they created this garbage "arrange by" option from scratch, copying over most (but not all) of "Stack by"'s features, before removing the original feature entirely.

The above image shows stacking still working, with the only change being that the file thumbails that were added for 7's theme previews also applied here, which makes the stacking even better!

You could even still stack inside library folders, meaning that libraries had BOTH "Stack by" and "Arrange by". However, I came across many bugs when attempting to use stacking inside the libraries (it worked perfectly smoothly everywhere else though), which is probably why they ended up removing the feature.

Honestly, if I had to choose between only Libraries or Stacking, I would choose stacking. Libraries are a MISERABLE failed attempt at the file tags feature that OS X added 4 years after Windows 7.

My point is: the fact that the stack option remained this far into Windows 7 that you could still use it in the public beta could mean that the option is simply disabled in Explorer, just like many other Explorer features that were hidden but have been restored by the modding community. My question is whether anyone has investigated whether this is the case and tried to bring back this underrated and powerful feature?

Thanks for reading lol!