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The palette shows 2-levels hieararchy (root, categories, and items in categories). It would be nice to visualize a tree hierarchy of items inside each category.
"Consider", "would be nice" ... doesn't sound like a DEFECT to me. For NB 5.0, we made a concious decision to visualize the common component palette as 2-level only. This decision can be revisited in future releases.