After editing for about 40 years and having learned to do all I need to do the hard way, I'm not at all enamored with the "Essential" panel additions. They seem to be geared towards non-pros or semi-pros, and there's nothing wrong with that. Don't get me wrong. We all started at the beginning. But, I'd rather have a separate app that was absolutely stable and geared to power users who rely on Pr for their livelihood or main source of income.

As we all know, the more an app gets bloated, the less stable it becomes.

Rather than Essential Audio panels, let's beef up the Audio Track Mixer to be more like industry standard DAWs like ProTools. Let's add more sophisticated tracking like industry standard Mocha, and so on.

Put all that "Essential" stuff in Adobe Premiere Elements, and let Premiere Pro live up to the name "Pro."

I hope the beginners and semi-pros won't find this offensive. It's not meant that way. If Pr Pro could import Elements projects, then maybe customers could graduate to Pro when they're ready.