I don't use a fraction of the power of BIAB but I've always found it rock solid and any problems I've had are usually operator error.

I'm in the senior citizen league so all my musical tastes are catered for. the only time i've not been able to create a track i wanted was a clone of 'Only you' by yazoo so any suggestions welcome!

I rough out things in BIAB (which isn't a DAW) and edit and finish in RealBand (which is a DAW and suits me fine although I know a lot of 'power users' look down on it!). I've never found anything I can't do that I wanted to do. The only limit is my imagination and creativity as a musician. Years ago I made music demo tracks of music I'd written for commercials to demonstrate to clients which were then finished up by professional musicians. I recorded in a studio for the demos with live musicians but these days much more quickly and less expensively I could produce better demo tracks with BIAB and RB.

Just looked at the UK top ten singles. I could easily recreate passable tracks for several with BIAB but not 'clones' although playing in several parts in RB I could probably get close with GM2 for several others. But then its always been the same. I used to play in a covers band of 60s music and created backing tracks in BIAB and edited them in PowerTracks for specific parts. If you listen to the bass in 'Midnight Hour' by Wilson Pickett you'll see that BIAB wouldn't create it but it's easy to play it in midi in Powertracks or RB.

If you can't do what you want with BIAB, then try following up the closest you can get in BIAB with RB. If you still can't do it, maybe you'd be better off with a different DAW. But lots of us find BIAB and RB just fine for covers and original music.

Country, folk, rock, blues and jazz aren't likely to change beyond the capabilities of BIAB in the near future - or at least not while I'm around anyway. So as long as they continue to be part of the musical landscape BIAB has a future.