This is super off topic, but I also find working with video UIs frustrating for this reason. For my own needs, I have been working on a video editing tool that

This is super off topic, but I also find working with video UIs frustrating for this reason. For my own needs, I have been working on a video editing tool that has a workflow more similar to web dev. E.g. describe changes in text files and render the final video on the command line. https://github.com/andykais/ffmpeg-templates https://github.com/andykais/ffmpeg-templates