Happy to hear subdomains added as domains work.
As for the directory structure, shorter is simpler and cleaner. For those using NTFS, it also makes copying files to and from the computer easier (because of the path length limit). IMO, having public_html directly in the root of user's account is...
One of the points of using a subdomain is to create some separation.
The way DirectAdmin does it now nullifies that option, since subdomain.example.com is visible in www.example.com/subdomain
It is a serious omission.
While I'm not sure why the main domain root isn't like "usual" -...