Don’t know if you have noticed, but the new mixer was (also) needed for complementing the new hardware. Which was another one of those long time must have requests.
I’m sure that if everyone could “design” his/her own DAW, they all would be very different. What is a priority for you might be a total waste of time for someone else, and vice versa. In other words, you will always find something to complain about. It will never be perfect. Let’s have some respect for features that benefits others. Although I agree with you that AAF must be fixed ASAP, I do not agree that this update without VCA.s is a total waste. The new linking features come very close to VCA’s and will fulfill the needs of most users. There will always be something that is crucially missing. I predict that, as soon as we have VCA.s, it will pale in comparison to the need of playlists and session import data.
Fredo