- There is no way to allow plugin windows to display/autofocus/jump to the foreground based on which track/device/chain is focus at the time
- There is no hotkey to display the plugin window of the currently selected track/device/chain. You can only display all plugin windows that have been toggled on or not. Another track's plugin could remain at the foreground.
- There is STILL no way to universally resize plugin windows (As a result we have to rely on the plugin maker to implement basic infrastructure like this
- There is no way to display all plugin windows side-by-side next to each other like "Mission Control" on Mac OSX
- There is no universal plugin wrapper UX that allows for the quick search browser of other plugins/devices and the ability to tag and save presets accordingly (similar to NI Komplete Kontrol).
How many millions of musicians around the world have to break their creative flow while writing/producing/performing to stop and find their mouse cursor, click into some nested device inside of the Detail View, and find the little dot they need to see the plugin they are playing in over and over? You should be enabling your users to keep their creative flow states, not destroying them!
I know you have a high standard for UX design. You force all of your own devices and your 3rd party M4L devices to get squished into the Detail View at the bottom row of your layout to save as much screen real estate as you can for small-screen laptops and such. This is a huge boon to creativity for users using those screens.
However, because the UI of plugins can't be controlled for you just put them in their own crappy window resizeable window and call the feature "done". The current plugin window UX comes across as though you built in a hackathon and never revisited its feature set on your roadmap. That's not good enough Ableton!
You've spent such an amazing amount of time and effort building some of the most innovative features in music tech!! Can you please try to catch up on the basic infrastructure please!!