My reasoning...
- It uses old standard widgets instead of the nicer sliders in the VC
- It's huge, the size of the entire vertical screen.
- It's on the left when every console I've ever used has it on the right (I don't care, but if it gets turned down and someone unexperienced is at a loss to figure out why the lights are dim... non-intuitive-ity is a problem.
- I'd very much like to be able to add a GM that's the same height as my other faders, which I can label and match to my layout look-and-feel.
- Why the height thing is an issue... depending on how the mouse/touchscreen/whatever is configured, a user may have to pick up the mouse and move it back to the top of the mousepad a couple of times to pull the fader all the way to the bottom... a touchscreen, a user has to keep their finger solid in a swipe all the way down the height of the screen, a trackpad user... it becomes that deal where you're holding down the trackpad button with one hand and pulling it up and down across several swipes the height of the trackpad.