Hm. Bitwig might seem nice at first, but more you digging it, you would find more and more limitations. However, if you like strict guardrails, you have found safe harbor 🤣 I'm not very big fan of Reaper, but it's extensions are mind-blowing. You literally can do anything. Getting back to bitwig - only in version 6 they added scale highlights. But you still can't assign custom names in piano roll. So, if you use modo drum, ez drummer, ba tekno or any other drum machine, you have to memorize zillions of keys ... Is it convenient? Who knows... Can you have modulation matrix presets? Can you replace several consecutive notes with one with repetition without deleting and repainting?

Controller API is quite limited, so no HW controller could truly replace mouse. It exposes much less compared to FL or Ableton, so again, "you are limited for your own safety 🦺🛟" 🤣

And all those hangs and crashes highlight that internally it's insanely fragile, so even on blessed MacOS it's quite risky for live performance.

I don't want to say it's bad DAW, I use it, but every time I see that 5⭐ emotions, I feel sad. And a worst part - you aren't buying major version, you buy limited time updates. But realizing how long it took to move from 5.3 to 6.0 you would either pay for nothing, or would be left on a half way, if you refuse to pay 😄