Steve - I am totally with you, especially with regards to the lost horizontal space in the PRV from SPlat 2017.02 onwards, when right pane was made a lot wider. It's probably not an issue for people with big new screens, but I am still using dual old-school 1280x1024 monitors so I lose a lot of space. (I'm not going to waste the earth's resources by routinely replacing stuff that works!)
But most modern websites and more and more VST instruments tend to have very, VERY low information density so I suppose it's the way we're heading...

I really like the Transform tool as well, but I think the PRV should be optimized once again by BandLab, the remake last year left some rough workflow edges.