Agreed.
When mixing you should “act” on the mixer, rather than think. A mix console is for an engineer what an instrument is for a musician. You must be able to learn to “play it” on instinct…
…This is very difficult with the new Mix Console in C7/7.5 and Nuendo 6, and we can’t “play it” as of now, as you have to stop - where is what? what are the status? what plugins are open? etc… “Killing” the creative flow when you are in the “mixing zone” when all you want is to follow your “feeling” and direction of the song.
To take it to the extreme, it is almost disrespectful to mixing engineers, to prioritize “look” before functionality.