MFDs: what technology blockers are preventing my ship from saving MFD status, such as which screens I choose to place on each MFD per ship?

I'm going to guess that's probably just waiting for the new MFD system to be finished, right?

Yeah, this is more a matter of priority, so there's no technical blockers. It's possible right now, it's just you wouldn't write it with the current system because it would just be wasted work. So we're in the process of upgrading the way that the UI works on MFDs, and part of that upgrade will include much better customization, and the much better customization will inevitably lead to wanting to be able to persist that customization from session to session or in different vehicles and stuff. So yeah, that's part of that block of work that they're doing; it's pretty much built into that task. So technically no blocker, but the blocker is a priority issue more than anything else.