While most of the studio requirements can be fixed with an external studio controller, the SIP mode of the PAFL system have to be implemented in the console itself, with the possibility to define busses and channels from being muted while some other channel is soloed.
For me I do not see any problems when the console will be more versatile and covers more use cases in future. I do nit think that live engineers will be completely confused and will make a lot of mistakes when there is a SIP mode possible with the PAFL system. Also switchable MONO and DIM on the listen bus, via soft buttons, is not a big deal when the operator do not expose that functions via soft buttons to the surface.
