The mouse cursor should have an overlayed R on it when ripple editing is engaged. No blinky or lit lights but a non-obtrusive (pretty much) constant reminder that you won't miss.

On the face of it, that sounds like an excellent method, 10 out of 10 from me, but I have no idea about the complexities of such a thing, or whether it's difficulty in implementing would be prohibitive compared to  "blinky or lit lights' but you win the prize today.
 
10/10
 
http://www.fxpansion.com/index.php

Varispeed! 
 

A car washer and a money tree!!
 
Or better yet, a Red Rider carbine action air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing which tells time!!

Roadmap!
 
(kidding)

 Cakewalk by bandlab Mac version or windows 10 drivers for VS700 system

bitflipper
They'll probably hunt me down and kill me for spilling the beans, but ... it's the long-suppressed Talent plugin.

Waves have already released a Oneknob plug-in to help polish one's musical turds:
 

I hear all the Cool Kids want an integrated sampler. 
 

I think it's something about transposing and exporting items.

In-app advertising. 
 
Seriously, some people in this thread have mentioned some good features, especially popular seem to be those involving better indication that an option/modifier is engaged such as ripple editing and offset. I miss the old days of hardware where a light would come on or flash to indicate such a thing. Software UX design seems to have forgotten those basic things. Slow, pulsing indicators that aren't annoying or distracting, but constantly remind you of state. I hope the bakers pick up on that.