I think it's time to allow tracks to contain information other than audio and midi.
Extend track types to include time ruler information that you set the way you want it. You could then have multiple time ruler tracks (one with just measure numbers in large font, and another one with MBT, etc).
You could then have measure offset numbers in the track, to easily support negative number starts.
Take this idea further, and we could have chord tracks, section tracks, text info tracks, multiple marker tracks, etc. even a blank spacer track.