Yes Norbury, but I really dig the Nuage way. When you reduce the fader to the minimum allowed, you still “waste” screen estate and I’d rather use this for equalizer curves for instance.
And faders/meters + meter bridge is a somehow redundant option.
With control surfaces, mimicking the faders graphically is an unnecessary leftover of old times IMO.
I’m sure the solution you described (the little cross to close the fader section) would be fairly simple to implement.
Maybe I’m a dreamer, and that’s somehow to be expected when you have your head up in the Nuages, but my feet remain firmly on the ground. 