I desperately wished Premiere's "Collect Files and Copy to New Location" feature would have an option to preserve the folder structure of the original files when copying them to the Destination Path.

Unfortunately tapeless workflows have made proper media management practices a total nightmare, especially when working with outside editors or clients who do not have sensible media management systems in place. This often results in media with duplicate filenames, etc., and as a conformist/colorist, I need to be able to determine the type of media (original camera format, shoot date, proxy/original transcode status etc) based on the information in the original folder paths the media was located in.

But if you "Collect Files" on a sequence, Premiere will just dump all the files from that sequence into a single folder without the original source paths. So you lose all references to where that media originally came from, which is important information to know for both troubleshooting and many other tasks.

Right now, I will either use Davinci Resolve (whose Media Management tool allows you to collect media while preserving original source paths), or a custom command-line shell script which does the same thing based on an XML export of the timeline. However, I hate having to make Premiere editors have to download, install and learn how to use Davinci Resolve just for this simple task. If you were able to do this, simply by ticking a checkbox in the Project Manager window, that would be a huge workflow win!