Yeah, nice work guys. I mean that sincerely.
But I do feel the need to add some balance here and point out that it also demonstrates a good amount of what I hate about the X1 UI. There's a lot of subjective stuff there.
And it also conveniently omits things like:
"In X1, you can no longer distinguish all automation envelopes in a single glance!"
"In X1, you'll be clicking the left mouse button more than ever!"
"In X1, you're limited to a restricted choice of text colors, and we've adjusted the contrast so their harder to read!"
"In X1 track view, pan,gain and volume controls all use the same color of blue!" "In X1, device names are munged into a confusing jumble of letters - and you'll have less room for the text!"
By the way - What on earth did the devs have against "cascading right-click menus" ? What made you hate them so virulently that you felt you had to remove them - even in cases where they are more efficient than the replacement mechanism provided in X1?
I see a lot of hard-learned UI conventions thrown out without any thought as to why they were used in the first place.
What's heartbreaking is the truly useful workflow enhancements in X1 would have been a godsend if they were added to a 9.0 release.
(No, I'm not one of those folks who think Cakewalk should be supporting the 8.5'rs with an updated release.)
(Yes, I'm bitter.)