I offer the exact opposite is true. Bugs and crashes (which are few and far between on my system and exhaustive reviewing the threads are more often than not, individual system related or operator error before BIAB is the actual issue.) are absolute killers to the concentration and focus needed for practice or happy jamming. Restarting the program is a lot less intrusive to the workflow of composing, producing and arranging.

If the purpose is to jam and practice, the recording, producing and composer features are meaningless to the artist and never have to be accessed and what you say are the clumsy and overly complicated features can be ignored and left untouched and avoid the possible bugs and crashes. It's not at all unusual for someone to have an issue with a feature, tool or part of the program I don't use and therefore I've never encountered that particular issue. In fact, that's the most common occurrence for me. There are certain areas, features and tools I access every time I use the program and it all works flawlessly for me, each and every use. Bugs and fixes are corrected with each upgrade, patch and new version release.

You don't state your primary purpose and you don't state that your system suffers from bugs and crashes. So this may be something you're worrying about rather than experiencing. Don't overlook that these forums are where people with every kind of issue and question imaginable come to report glitches, errors, omissions and even navigation, music theory and a collection of any thing else one can seek an answer for. It is also only a small collection of the total body of artists, producers, arrangers, performers, hobbyists and professionals that use the program. My point is you're receiving a skewed view of the software program.

I honestly don't think you have a thing to worry about regardless whether you intend to jam, practice, record, produce or compose. Most users never approach the nearly limitless potential BIAB is capable of outputting. I doubt you will.

Many times BIAB is mislabeled and thus mistaken to be something it was neither designed to be nor intended to be used for. Calling BIAB a DAW is a great example. It's not a DAW so 100% of the DAW tools and features it lacks or that are incorrectly applied to a project by the user making such a misstatement are not truthful and correct.

Just use BIAB for what ever and every purpose you wish and post any bugs, issues and questions you come across.

BIAB 2026:RB 2026, Latest builds: Dell Optiplex 7040 Desktop; Windows-10-64 bit, Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz CPU and 16 GB Ram Memory.