Hi Tim.
Just wanted to let you know i tested 4.8
Orthographic views are working 100% now
Alt-1,2,3 etc shortcuts now work also
Also i think i better understand now what is occurring with the capsules that bugged me so much. The capsules don’t try to conform to the bone size, but instead tries to cover the weighted verts. This is good though. What confused me was that i assumed the pivot points that is displayed in constraints viewmode would apply to the Physics body, but when i scaled the body it would be very far away from the bone pivot.
I then assumed there is some issue because my bone is 9000 miles (as previously stated 
) away from the bone but in fact the body does not center on the bone pivot but instead it tries to cover the weighted verts as mentioned.
Therefor i hang my head in shame and admit that Phat is not as neglected as i might have thought it was when i was having my panic attack.
I still need to submit a request on answerhub to ask Epic if perhaps they can pick up, why in some instances alignment is occasionally off. If it would be related to the way the mesh is weighted or perhaps if there is a transform on those specific bones.
All in all thanks for the bug fixes and good work.
Cheers