In templating its pretty cumbersome to collect all nodes from a certain type within a workspace, no matter how deep they are located in the workspace (folders etc).

In Java simply achieved:

Iterable<Node> childrenIterable = NodeUtil.collectAllChildren(jcrSession.getRootNode(),new NodeTypePredicate("mgnl:contact", true));

In Freemarker it would be nice to have something alike this (workspace, nodeType):

[#assign allContacts = cmsfn.collectAllChildren("contacts", "mgnl:contact")]

In a template one needs to code a recursion/macro for it.

Also it would be nice do be able to directly access the NodeUtil and the PropertUtil directly:
Something alike

[#assign nodeUtil = cmsfn.nodeUtil]

[#assign propertyUtil = cmsfn.propertyUtil]