I'm deeply focused on my editing which requires a lot of zooming in and zooming out which I also use to slowly move my way across the timeline by zooming in on one side and zooming out on the other. When I have to look at my keyboard to make sure I'm hitting the Alt key and not my Ctrl, Windows key, or space bar which I do half the time, it takes my sight off of the clip I am editing. Then I have to find my place again. And sometimes if I hit the alt key instead of the space bar, then the menu d
Agreed. But what one thinks practical, another might not, I guess. Just think, it gets you to digging into the workings of your DAW and helps you learn a lot of new stuff! 🙂
 I know, I'd much rather spend more time working on actual music than making the DAW do what I think it should do, but it's basically another instrument we have to learn, so it needs a little time.