Actually, this paragraph does nicely illustrate what we’re still lacking in notation software. I guess that I have found it worth spending the time on Expression Maps with the aim of learning how best to utilize what we have and you already know many of the tricks for doing it in a DAW. But I really can’t say I’ve found anything seriously missing with the string quintet I posted elsewhere for instance which requires a DAW. No, not even the question of legato phrasing which is a real, though imo much exaggerated issue.
I don’t really think we do really have differing views in any radical way – simply differing areas of experience and perhaps also differing aesthetics and tastes.