If you find this would be helpful in your workflow please vote.
I find I waste a lot of time when trying to set the tiling offset so a material lines up correctly with the material on another object.
Yes, it is odd that those numbers are not draggable since most other numbers are. Please file a bug on that as a feature request… should be simple to fix.
Ok, cool.
Case 425369
Cool, assigned to Editor Team… maybe it will make it into 3.5 
Would be nice, thanks!