More than 1 million Bulgarian immigrants scattered across the globe are struggling to preserve their cultural identity/heritage and to pass it over to their children. There are Alexa skills (like "Bulgarian library" skill) which could help them teach BG-language to their children however currently Amazon does not allow access to this skill from anywhere except US,UK,CA,AU. Most of the world (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc) has no access to it. So, in this case splitting the globe into regions makes no sense whatsoever.

Would be greatly appreciated by thousands of people IF Amazon allows access to skills which are outside the physical "region" a given person currently resides into (without having to give up all other services tied to that region)

One way to accomplish this is:
As part of certification process, in "opt in for auto distribution" to have additional "exempt from local interaction-model requirement" checkbox along with "why you need this ?" text box where basically the developer could ask for a given skill to be distributed (say in Germany) even though only English interaction-model is implemented. This would be rare case anyway and Amazon still keeps the right to allow if reasonable or deny such request.

Thanks for consideration

Not being able to order items in a shopping list makes it a painful experience to use the list while out shopping.

You continually have to scroll up and down your list to check whether the aisle you're in at the supermarket is one that contains something on your list.

Or sometimes you have a large shopping list, but only need to grab a few things - but without being able to move these higher priority items to the top of the list there's not way to indicate this.

Giving users the ability to reorder their list items would improve the list experience greatly

Auto duck is a popular feature in audio mixing software like Audacity; it allows a track (A) to play at a desired volume while there is silence on another track (B). Whenever track B is NOT silent, track A automatically reduces its volume, allowing track B to be heard clearly, and both tracks to continue uninterrupted. A automatically returns to its default volume when B is silent once again, and so on for the duration of the track(s).

Example:

Track A: background music
Track B: voiceover (VO) track - spoken phrases separated by variable-length periods of silence.
This use case is common in meditation / relaxation skills, and games.
When there is speech on track B, the music volume (track A) reduces automatically to allow the voiceover on B to be heard clearly. Between spoken phrases, B is silent and the music volume (track A) returns to its default level.

Adding support for this in APLA would enable a much richer audio experience in many types of skill, including games, quizzes, education and relaxing sounds. One approach would be to add an an AutoDuck filter, applicable to items supported by the Mixer component.

{
  "type": "Audio",
  "source": "${payload.backgroundMusicUrl}",
  "filter": [
    {
      "type": "AutoDuck",
      "amount": 0.1
    }
  ]
}

Without this feature, ducking cannot be achieved natively by developers. They can only approximate the effect using pre-recorded audio, which makes it hard (impossible?) to mix a music track selected at runtime based on skill state, with spoken content pulled from a database.

It will be better for the user, to add more than one statement as alternative voice command in the same Alexa Routine instead of creating separately.

For example:

A user creates a routine named "I'm home". The tasks under this routine will be executed when the user says to Alexa "Alexa, I'm home".

However, the user may also say

"Alexa, I'm back" or
"Alexa, I return home" or
"Alexa, I enter in sweet home" or
"Alexa, I enter home" or
"Alexa, I'm back to my room" or
"Alexa, I just arrive" or
"Alexa, I arrive home" or
"Alexa, I reach home" or
"Alexa, I just entered my home" or
"Alexa, I just entered sweet home" and so on.

In the above case, for these example voice commands, the user needs to create separate routines that contain the same/similar tasks like the routine named "I'm home".

So my proposal is either to have the option to add more statements under the "when" text field during Routine creation

or create some possible collection of commands that relates to the user-given voice command.

As a result, when the routine will be enabled, then Alexa will perform tasks after getting any voice commands from the collection.