More effort in linear recording is needed.

I am a Cakewalk user of 25+ years. Had been watching FL since scary 90s. Trying demos every few years. It came a long way...
Unfortunately it seems Cakewalk is leaning toward subscription model. (Their new Sonar is sub only). Their "free" version is tethered to their activation process, so potentially they can disconnect it at any time. Ok, enough of pity talk. I've tried about 10 major DAWs from Reaper to Avid and everything in between. I ended up with 2 choices. Cubase and FL Studio. After a long internal debate, I am now married to FL.

While Cubase is likely the best - most balanced "traditional" DAW, it is slow to adopt to new approaches and FL seems to embrace brave new world at much faster pace. Also Reaper is proven to be a very respectful and low cost software as alternative. However, here are the things that I will miss dearly if Cakewalk goes bye bye.

1) Traditional track "take lanes" that can be soloed and/or muted. While most DAWs have comping approaches (including FL) both
mute AND solo are rarity.

2)Individual Track lane automation (string & node) , right on the individual take lane itself - with visual representation of the waveform changes.

3)With new take lane automatically created if overlapped.

4)Multi tool for Audio editing -no tool switching for move, fade crop, draw, right click split, etc.

5) Cakewalk is touch friendly. It's obviously sucks for menus and buttons, but is amazing for track navigation and zooming / zooming out.
Eight years ago it was much (much!) better than current Bitwig.

6) Dynamic and individual track zooming.

To summarize, more attention should be given to existent linear workflow in FL. Not only for someone like me, coming from traditional DAW, but to lose stigma that "FL is only for beatmakers". I know this is untrue, but this how it perceived because not enough effort is done on linear front. Just my 3 cents.