+1 for everything the OP posted in that excellent video!

My perspective is similar and well known. I LOVE what I can get out of BIAB! It is way out beyond AWESOME! But I HATE using BIAB to mine for those audio diamonds! Or, at least, I used to! I have to say this 2026 update is the best thing PGM has ever done to improve the GUI and UX! After many hours of using this new version I find I am starting to actually enjoy using BIAB! Now, with that said, I still bail out of BIAB as quickly as possible and do all of my leveling, panning, mixing, fx, cuts/pastes, etc. in my DAW. And that is because of the very things the OP has illustrated. It is just not close to being complete for those advanced tasks to actually finish a song. And, before Charle F. (for whom I have immense respect) can jump in and point out that you can do everything inside BIAB including slopping the hogs and trimming the bushes, I get that some things CAN be done but they are so difficult and obtuse and unpredictable that I will not bother to even try when better tools exist that are quick and easy to use.

So, 2 main points...1) AWESOME work on the UX in 2026 and 2) LOTS left to do to really make the built-in functions and features accessible to average users!