I’m actually quite surprised that there isn’t input patching/routing. I’m even more surprised that I had to sift through this many posts to find a request for input patching.
I would like the ability to be able to digitally patch an analog or digital input to any channel (or multiple channels).
1:1 routing on a digital console? Come on, even studio analog guys have patchbays to re-route input signals to channels they want them on. And analog live sound people will come up with some creative schemes to make sure that what comes from the stage shows up on the channels they want.