A few people have mentioned this, and possibly it’s something we will change. Our rationale for always producing a hairpin when you type any of the sequences that give rise to a gradual dynamic is that the user might not know that they are setting per-item overrides when they e.g. type “dim” and get a “dim.” text gradual dynamic rather than a hairpin, so they might then be surprised when they change the default appearance of a gradual dynamic in Engraving Options and only some of the dynamics in their project change. But, as I say, a few people have mentioned it here, and a couple of beta testers have mentioned it too, so I’m open to the possibility of changing this as and when we can.