What I think is needed is essentially a reliable replacement for MS restore. I got screwed depending on MS restore.

It ought to be doable; perhaps not easily. But it would be a nice added marketing point. It should at least allow just restoring the last incremental  contents. Even more useful to specify the beginning and end of the incrementals to restore.
Reflect can accomplish this as it is. But only by going back though all the incrementals, and then doing a full disk restore takes quite a long  time. And 99%+  unnecessary. Certainly not what you want to have while working on changes to drivers or installing new software for testing.

Some sort of virtual thing could come into play, and you are now working with virtual, but until you support all the popular systems, it is not real viable. Even when you do support all of the virtual systems, it would be rather a pain to install and build a virtual system just for restore replacement.
Pretty please.

You can pick any incremental in a backup chain to restore and it will restore the full and any preceding incrementals in the chain - so it'll restore the system to the point it was at the time the incremental you restore was taken.  If you use Rapid Delta Restore, only information changed since the incremental was taken is written back to the volume you're restoring, so if very little has changed since the incremental was taken it will restore VERY quickly.

As I mentioned in the other thread you created, when I took an incremental before messing around with my Win10 partition then mucked it up, the restore (using Rapid Delta Restore) took only 2.5 minutes.