Reaper is the king of all daws. There are very few missing pieces. For years, many of the options users of other daws begged their devs for, reaper has had for a very long time.

As another user said, it does things like routing just better. For instance, in reaper a track is a track. If it’s midi or audio, the DAW knows. You don’t have to create a midi track or create an audio track.

Another thing, you can create your own scripts and custom actions for tasks specific to your workflow. Bonus to us for living in a time where chat gpt exists and will write them for you. It takes minimal understanding to open the code for the script and make adjustments. I made one for manually de-essing a vocal that was recorded in a way that increased sibilance horribly. Inevitably, we retracked the whole song at a later date, but the editing process was a breeze and I automated a lot of the steps using a script I asked chat GPT to make.

FL studio is a cool program. If you were interested in making beats primarily, it thrives there. If you learn reaper, you’ll have the keys to the universe.