"before telling me i'm wrong or pilloring me..i respectfully suggest you all come up with a new daw gui design,"

You are wrong for even suggesting this.

We, users are not a part of a company, nor (likely most of us) are GUI designers. It's the company's job to do this stuff. But to user defense, if you have not followed closely, there had been plenty of great ideas offered, both graphical and workflow, mock ups, videos, discussions through the years.... including this very thread.

If company did the right thing and made fully modular and skin-able design, as your buddy musocity said:
" movable modules, custom menus and icon options gives whatever theme/layout the user wants"

Then we could have a discussion about user designed layouts, icons, buttons, colors and fonts. This is not available to us, nor PGM offered a challenge for the best design to be implemented.
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I am sorry robertw, that your great thread got derailed with this trivial nonsense. You are on the right path and you are not alone who want a common sense solution for outdated UI.