I was one of the people that was skeptical about the new minecraft Bedrock Edition. While the game itself is rather exceptional, it's the lack of various features present for all players in other editions (especially java) that sadly lower the quality of the game. Not to mention, it looks like you are attempting to transition people from java to this game; if you want to do that, you are going to have to keep and implement many of the features from java into bedrock. Believe me, I can understand how much effort goes into programming a game, especially since I've tried before to make a few single-handedly; however, various features available in the marketplace make me question how much effort is going into keeping minecraft as a creative game versus just trying to milk the game for money. While as a business, you have every right to do whatever you wish the game (as long as it is legal), minecraft bedrock edition seems to be falling away from being a creative player experience and turning into a money-maker. Development of maps, skins, and other things are not fully available to the creative players from java but rather are only available to various businesses who enter into a partnership with Mojang. I'm not saying that everyone should have access to put things on the marketplace, since that would be disastrous; I'm saying that those who enjoy making or playing special games and maps for themselves shouldn't have to buy them or enter into a legal contract with mojang to publish them online for others to use. Encourage players to get creative and put things online for others to use and play, but keep the marketplace for master developers to let their skills shine and make some money for it. To do this, give general players the fuller features of NBT, the features of older minecraft editions, scoreboard commands, and other modifications (perhaps a development kit) to give general players the ability to create the crazy maps without a partnership (the betas and add-ons have led me to believe you are working to add some of these features, which is good). Please, by all means, do the same with the modding api, that way people don't have to pay $20 in addition to the $30 to get the game in order to play a modpack they could set up themselves, but the option is there for the top-gear developers to sell their stuff. People who want to develop and give free open-source access to their mods or maps should be able to provide it to others and not have to sell it. I would exhibit extra care to put this ability into the Xbox console, since it could open the possibility for someone to open a backdoor into the console itself, which would be completely inappropriate; nonetheless, this should not discourage the implementation of these features.
In short, please give all developers access to display their creativity with much better development tools without having to enter a legally binding contract with Mojang and leave in the marketplace for expert developers to make even better maps. Make Minecraft a game about more creativity again instead of a way to make money.
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For servers I believe you are right, to my knowledge they use third-party software to expose lots of extra functionality that you could never get in singleplayer or with mere behavior packs/commands; equivalent to the types of plugins you would see on java servers. Although I can't speak too much on their relationship with microsoft, I know that at the very least they enable extra things like purchasing nonsense in-game (probably related to the GUI you mention).
As for the map in that video, that guy was too painful to watch haha, but based on your description, my guess is that the signs are simply cloned in from existing templates.
I found the map on the marketplace (called Restaurant Simulator - Head Chef). Fortunately the command blocks were predictably at (0, 0), and there I indeed found templates for the signs.
(sorry about the colossal image, I'm pretty sure you can't resize them on this mess of a website)
Finding the actual /clone command itself was a bit more complicated. The upgrade button summons a zombie horse. After some time, I found a chain of command blocks labelled "upg listener" somewhere. It makes zombie horses check a block beneath them (at the bottom of the world, seemingly representing the current status of the upgrade), then activates another chain.
And that is where I found it, the commands to clone the new sign, remove experience from the player, and so on.
Aha! Theory right, with a bit of poking. You are very right that mapmakers would love NBT access and other things, but alas we must put up with convoluted workarounds.
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