Most mods with a GUI, it's roughly square shaped or configurable. KAS's is wide and short, almost like a toolbar in a browser. The problem (other than making me think of browser toolbars. shudder) is that there is no good place to put this on your screen. Either you to put it at the top (where there are at least 3 stock gui elements) or bottom (where there are at least 2 stock gui elements, 3 if you have Kerbals on board), or somewhere in the middle covering your ship which (because you're using KAS) also has a lot of clickable elements.

I'm not sure the best thing to do about this, but maybe giving each winch its own gui would be a start. Rework it so it's more squarish and maybe allow us to hide controls we don't need to make it auto-size smaller.

I'd suggest this request is about winch GUI.