I just posted a plea and a link to this post on "the thread".  I'd love to see "BEFORE Triggers" become a reality instead of those gosh-awful "Instead Of" triggers.  I have little love in general for Oracle but this one of those things that Oracle absolutely did right from the git.  It would make writing audit triggers a whole lot easier to prevent unnecessary duplication in audit tables, which become some of the biggest tables of them all.