It is a PITA - but it helps to set up the view of those track-elements in a way were the time-base is shown even on tracks with smaller vertical high/zoom. Often that time base button is only there when enlarging the track quite a little… and regarding Midi you often have to go to the inspector first… You can change that.
That way you just have to do a little clickfest down and down and down… instead of going to the inspector track by track.
Yea you can set up the default setting for new tracks in the prefs - but when you receive that project from another studio? Usually my projects ( I am doing music only) are coming from Cubase. And tracks are set to musical usually. I like them to be in linear so first I do is having a little clickfest… after removing horrible colours 