You know Rich rarely if ever reads this thread. Even if you get everybody to agree with you then what ? In the end you're asking for a total re-write of D3's workflow. We have no way of knowing how much work that would be for Synapse or how much return on their investment of time that would generate.
But to insult Synapse by saying things like this:
How long have you known Richard ? Why would you want to do him like that ? No thought and effort ? Really ?
Look I'm not opposed to any feature request and yes workflow is a feature but we all have our priorities. My top feature requests will never be added to D3 so I just accept it and enjoy what is.
So instead of waiting for something that may never happen why not just enjoy D3 for what it is now ? I just hate to see anyone missing out on the great sound of Dune because it might not as easy to program as they want it to be.
Anyway I hope everybody gets their own favorite requests granted but in the meantime I'm just going to keep using and enjoying D3 for what it is today.........