Using the UD Service Designer

I’ve been trying a create a new base app manually, but aside from the bugs that have been giving me (and everyone else) all kinds of grief, there seem to be things they did in the built-in screens that are not possible in App Studio, like storing expressions in properties where the UI only allows selections from a drop down list (the uiFormEventType in dialog-show-system is one example, I suspect there are others).