It would also be nice to have a keybind (or at least a button on the UI) to toggle pause as well. Recently, I was gathering a specific number of nodes when a Hunt target popped up. I had to choose between stopping to go kill it or not needing to calculate the number of nodes left to harvest from, but if I could pause Miqo without losing that progress, I could have broken off to fight and then gone back to farming seamlessly.
Admittedly not a very common or important thing, but if pausing is already planned I figured I may as well mention it.