Would be nice that when you browse for raids, you can have another dropdown menu somewhere that lets you go by raid. Or force the use of a sub-type when creating a raid group in oq.

Tons of times I see Soo groups with no catagorizing, so it's hard to look for say all Soo normal mode raids going on.

you can use the spyglass to filter for the type of raid you're looking for.
for example

any soo group: soo
any soo flex group: soo & flex
any none flex soo group: soo & !flex
any old raid: !soo