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Yea, I can't imagine ever clicking on any of these icons or calling their functionality by way of keystrokes. This style of interfacing with software in this fashion is classic "grunt work". Anyway, some people like to work harder, not smarter. I remember watching a particular producer work with similar patterns and it was so clear how much time was being wasted performing tedious steps over and over again. Grabbing and dragging scrollbars around (constantly), painstakingly auditioning sound patches by starting from the beginning of a convoluted drop-down menu where you'd then need to carefully navigate (and remember what you didn't like last time) sub-menus, using appropriate zoom icons over and over..... essentially fighting with the system in order to get any work done. The thing is, he just didn't know any better. He never took a step back to consider how much time and mental energy was being wasted.

There are more efficient ways to do these things and I for one am really grateful that this software has been way ahead of the curve providing those "hooks" for some time now. A perfect example of this "smart" design came up just last week where I realized each automation point can be copied (C) and pasted (V). Now, once pasted, the duplicate point is made visible and can be dragged horizontally to the desired location. As it is being dragged, the value of the point is maintained thereby ensuring the 2 will match when the new location is selected. This is incredible because it absolutely destroys the alternative workflow I had used previously where I was doing it all manually being extremely careful with the mouse in order to accomplish the goal already mentioned.

But you have to learn to look for these more efficient patterns I suppose.

But back to the original question, I'd just like to see those icons go away all together.