Exactly. I’d rather have a little wider track controls than both track controls + the inspector witch is full of distracting, cluttered and often doubled information anyway. It’s just a cleaner layout without the inspector in my opinion.
I like the fact that looking at the highlighted track (selected track), I can see if it is rec enabled, soloed, muted, frozen etc… For me, all of that info makes sens to have on the track controls. All that we are missing is volume and pan. Having to select a track and then look at the inspector to see that info is just 2 additional steps we could avoid a 1000 times a day.
I bet a lot of people would appreciate. I love Cubase a lot but coming from Ableton Live (and yes I scored to picture and worked with the arrangement view), I still miss the way everything was neat and clear. No eye candy but very intuitive and easy to work with.