You could also do the same thing in an open source DAW too. The problem is that it is specific to the control surface ... the other problem is that it's not act

You could also do the same thing in an open source DAW too. The problem is that it is specific to the control surface ... the other problem is that it's not actually clear that a given control surface is actually an ideal layout for a given plugin either (hence all the work done by the developer(s) on their own custom GUI).