good job needle
I think it has reached the time to realise this game is old and complex, and any new player really liking the game will agree with these improvements, right now its almost all copy+paste on a text based game.
All the external tools developed for IC actually make this game looking 'professional' not an amateur pew pew game, right now only players liking strategy will love this game at 1st sight.
We must realise most of the new players try some days, maybe a full round, and they leave as they arrived, but those liking strategy sure gonna love it and stay, and then they join the community (wich is the definitive step for a new player to be part of IC). People who dont mind to read a good strategy post, battle reports, intel reports, etc.. not most of young players, but some of those young players that are somewhat smart, cause anyone actually playing this game show a inteligence superior to media (well we have some exceptions hehe
I wont post names).
Undeath your point is reasonible the way you say 'all this years doing stuff manually and now new players will have many comodities I never had', well, its called progress mate 
also, I'd like to add a new idea related to this post, it is easy --> add a button in infils reports to automathically post the report in family forum, then you only have to use silenz.org optionally, cause the report is already posted.