Reduce technical debt

[Wodann]

While pursuing the release of EDR v0.1 and v0.2 we made design and implementation choices that we'd like to revisit when we can spend more time. This issue is meant to track any such technical debt.

Prioritized

• [x] #244
• [x] #177
• [x] #62
• [ ] #100
• [x] #240
• [x] #286
• [ ] #296
• [ ] #292
• [ ] #104
• [ ] #197
• [ ] #154
• [ ] #230
• [ ] #150
• [ ] #146
• [ ] #165
• [ ] #220
• [ ] #198
• [x] #445

Non-prioritized

• [ ] #260
• [ ] #161
• [ ] #225
• [ ] #226
• [x] #239
• [x] #255
• [ ] #274
• [ ] #284
• [ ] #285
• [ ] #365
• [ ] #382