Hi,
Not sure if this is the right spot to put this, but would the ability to draw out fields from a user's profile be possible just using References, or would that require Views integration? For example, a "department" page would have a user_reference module that links to user's profiles. In that listing, be able to grab first/last name, avatar, other custom fields in the render for each referenced user.

Above sounds more and more like Views integration, but I'm a little new to the concept of using what I believe would be a Views Attachment or Views Block to handle this (using relationships I'm assuming). Any step-by-steps or advise you can give me for that? This is in relation to the "reverse functionality" about the missing checkbox to automatically show referenced nodes on a user's profile (whom was referenced on a node) automatically, but I believe that is being addressed in a separate issue.

Thanks for all the hard work!