I’m not saying that the bug isn’t nasty and that it doesn’t have nasty consequences. Of course it does.
What I’m saying though is that if you want to protect yourself from erroneous fader movements then as far as I know writing automation nodes is the only way, and in addition to that the workaround I mentioned involves two key clicks only, no more. It seems to me to be “an option” that wouldn’t really slow you down at all actually.
Just so we’re clear though, I’m absolutely not questioning your workflow or excusing the bug, just trying to find out if there’s a reasonable solution for you so you can have your cake and eat it too… and it seems to me that it’d be a bigger benefit to use VCAs with a simple macro than it is not using VCAs at all, from what I can tell…