Funkybot
I'd love to see Sonar move in the direction of "FEWER menus, windows, and clicks" to truly speed up the workflow. For instance, 1) clicking the Add Track button should just automatically add an audio track routed to the master output. One click. Covers probably 90% of audio track use cases.
Remember, settings persist...so that's pretty much what Add Track does. The only difference is after the click to add track, you can review the settings before you do a second click to create the track. At least for me, and I suspect other people who use interfaces with more than one input, automatically adding an audio track routed to the master bus does not cover 90% of all audio track insert needs at all. What's needed also depends on whether you're doing direct monitoring with zero latency, whether you want to choose a different source, or need input echo. If on the other hand you have an interface with only one input and that's the only one you use, then just let the Add Track settings persist and it will give you an audio track, going to the master bus, with the whatever input, echo, and record options you specified previously with two clicks total. The tradeoff for the extra click is not having to go into some extra ctrl+whatever menu to specify additional options.
2) Clicking and dragging an instrument to the Project pane should automatically add a single instrument track routed to the master bus. Single click and drag operation, covers most use cases. No pop up windows, no extraneous options.
Now...for when I want to add multiple tracks or want to route tracks somewhere else, or create a folder, how about: 3) Ctrl+Add Track Button to open the pop-up menu. Do something similar for synths when I need a multi-timbral or multi-out setup.
In general that's more complicated than the way things are now because again, settings persist. If dragging from the browser, you don't have to do anything extra (like hit ctrl+add track to do more sophisticated options) because a window opens up with those options automatically. Because those settings persist, you can just click OK and be done with it. If you want to do a multi-out setup, you can do that as well before you click OK. You can also uncheck "ask me every time" if you don't want to see that window again. Total is one click+drag and one click to what you describe in the first part of 2).
As to the second part, Add Track already handles the folder aspect if that's what yow want. However, what the current scheme does
not handle is creating additional MIDI tracks for a multi-timbral setup, nor does Add Track. But at that point it gets more complicated anyway...number of tracks, which channels they should go to, which input they should receive, etc. so that's going to require "click+extra stuff" regardless.