As title but I see you are already working on this so this ticket is just a reminder.

Question: why would Ctrl be needed for removing items from the grid? Normal Shift-click should be enough.

Awesome, that's definitely in my plans, probably not for v1.3, but it might get rolled in with the v1.3.x updates.

I was really not specific enough when posting this.
I meant shif-clicking in the output item slot to craft a whole stack or to craft as many items as the amount of input items allow and transport it directly to the player's inventory.
By ctrl+shift+click I meant doing it in the crafting grid (recipe input) to get rid of only one item type from there and drop it in the player's inventory.

Any news on this?
This (and missing NEI-support, #12 ) are the things that unfortunately make the Werkbench pretty useless for us.

Yes and no, @4rz0. I've been doing a huge rewrite of the backend, which is why there hasn't been a new release in months. The rewrite will make stuff like shift clicking possible, and in some cases, easy.

NEI support is coming in v1.3.x, that much I can promise. I don't have any ETA, but it's in progress.