Can't sleep either. What a great space and plan. Don't know enough to give advice but several posters have said they like drawers under cooktop for pans. Many also prefer oven raised to eye level. Your stated desire for the view to be #1 priority seems clear. You could move the oven to fridge wall, but I love your coffee area. I'd just bend down to look at the cookies. Your plan is nicely balanced. Common concern is # of cooks in your kitchen. If there are two of you, can you be at the cooktop and opening the oven at the same time. It seems so either way (West or island). The other concern is the open oven near the doorway. Someone more knowledgeable will comment.
Look at more pictures here and you'll feel better about the hood over the cooktop and you'll forget about the oven. That being said, weren't you looking at GE Monogram combo? I thought they approved stacked installation. FWIW, GE never responded to my request for clarification about the Profile installation. Post the appliance brands you are considering, people will chime in. There is more traffic here than on the appliance forum.
Good luck, it's going to be beautiful!

2b - LOL, a fellow insomniac! Thanks for your encouragement. You are right, I was considering the GE combo (and still am, along with the Kenmore slide-in ind range) but since DH wants the cooktop and oven to be separate (he does more cooking that me), I posted the drawings of them separate. But if they are separate there are not many options (which keeps me coming back to the combo). The drawing I posted is with oven beside (KA 36" induction plus KA convection WO) but I have several other drawings with oven underneath in various locations along the west wall, beside the fridge, on the island even across to the south wall (DH vetoed that one). When it's beside the fridge (on either side), it creates a cavernous corner counter that is not easily accessible and then how to make the corner cab accessible? Plus either the fridge or the oven would get in the way of someone at the sink if opened. I thought of putting the oven in a raised cab beside the cooktop but that would ruin the window view when sitting on the island.

I hope you are right that others will comment.

I am sorry to hear GE did not reply. I found them friendly to talk the 3 times I called - which was not my experience with KA - but they really don't know more than what is in the manuals on their website. I ended up hounding an appliance dealer 3 hours away until he got the info from his rep. Didn't you take the plunge and buy the Kenmore?

Keeping this on the first page cuz still hoping for help :)

If you're going to put the oven under the counter, do try to put it under the cooktop or as a range, especially if there's any chance you'll want to sell your house in the next ten years. What you've depicted does look odd. Can you tell us why you decided on this configuration?

Most ovens nowadays aren't all that hot on the outside, if that's what your husband dislikes. I think putting the oven in the island would look a lot better, if you decide you really want it separate.

One thing that concerns me is the distance from the seating counter to the table. It's going to be an awfully tight tangle of feet and legs and chair limbs. You should have another foot at the very least, and even that is pretty darned close. But then that impinges on your seating area. I really recommend making a model of it with chairs and boxes and see how you like moving around.

But, as to the west wall, the original question, I do have one thought. I don't know what your budget constraints are, or anything like that, but for maximizing the view I'd take the windows down to counter level, with the counter extending over the sill (a very popular look right now, for good reason), and run it all the way from the light switches to just in front of the corner cabinet. The part behind the hood would have to be fixed (i.e., non-opening). I'd also do minimal framing between the glass panels as much as will go with your house. You can set the outlets into the countertops with grommets.

plllog, thanks for your thoughtful reply (and you must be so busy right now, too!). I am so glad you suggested the oven and cooktop stay together. It looks odd to me too but DH prefers the oven to be separate from the cooktop because 1. he does not want to cook in front of a hot oven and 2. he likes the idea of drawers below the cooktop. I didn't want to lose the banks of drawers on the island. So that is how the oven ended up where it did in the drawing.

We plan to sell the house in the next 10-15 years and I see your point about that. Does 10-15 years mean a very different conclusion? Where would you put the oven on the island? I worry about the oven and DW doors hitting each other.

I also worried about the lack of room between the island and table wondered if the overhang should be less. Right now the island countertop is to be 3'6" wide which leaves nearly 16" overhang. Should I make it less? I think I remember reading on the forum that the overhang should be 15" when at counter ht. I was told when I was visiting showrooms that 4' between island and and table would be plenty of room. Is this actually too little? If it is, we will have a problem. In removing the wall we are getting rid of a formal living area (which we never use anyway) and we really need to have a sitting area in the space. The dining table is going to be new and so one idea is to have it custom built a bit narrower. Would this solve the problem?

I am very intrigued by your window idea. It would be so amazing...but I have a few concerns:

1. the house is a 1962 bungalow with a 1950s character - coved ceilings which we are keeping because every single room in the entire house has coves - and I am not sure it would "fit" with the house. The kitchen I am dreaming of is an updated take on the house's era - white cupboards, a comfortable, almost (but not quite) cottagy feel. Maybe urban country would describe (no curlicues and fussiness; clean lines without being contemporary). Would the windows you describe suit this?

2. the window faces due west so the sun would shine in the eyes when cooking dinner (unless I can get DH to agree to a covered deck ;). You mentioned the window behind the cooktop would have to be fixed. Would it look silly to have a mini-blind between the panes of glass (we are doing this for the glass door on the left)? I am a little worried about the blind breaking down though. What kind of window treatment would work for this arrangement?

3. would installing a hood fan in front of the window look silly? This is something my DH would definitely want installed.

Are any of these concerns justified?

Thanks again for your help. I so appreciate it.