Ability to add prefix to annotation feature class and choose custom name

RTPL_AU

When converting labels to annotations in Pro you cannot change the name of the annotation feature class (AFC) nor can you add a prefix to the default name.
Please add the ability to create a custom feature class name as well as the ability to set a prefix to the default name.

 

We prefix all our AFCs with 'anno_'  so that they are grouped together in the GDB. 
If there are many AFCs created from the same layer name (same layer added multiple times) then you have to use a custom suffix for each one and then go back to the GDB and rename them to something sensible.

A workflow now has to be discarded because Pro cannot do what ArcMap does.

Further to this - remove the requirement to add a new contents group layer for every annotation layer that is created. Is there a good reason that Pro cannot use an AFC that is not in a group layer in Contents?

 

RTPL_AU

@KoryKramer  Please tell me what the rationale and process you had in mind was for the following:

• Not allowing us to rename annotation layers in the "Convert Labels to Annotation" 
• Placing resulting annotations in a group layer

These are steps I now have to go through every single time to get the required data names / map structure (rename in gdb and remove from group). 
It is a non-trivial change from ArcMap so I assume there has to be some clear reason why; and if you can tell me it may help me do things better.

My process:  Prefix all annotation with 'anno_' so that they are all together at the top of a gdb in catalog view. Then they may also be named to set the doc version, reason, style used, etc. We may have the same dataset labelled/anno'd multiple times for different documents or document versions.
I may place all final annotations in a group layer (e.g. to turn them off easily to see what labels remain) but usually they are each just a single map layer on their own.