I'm still getting used to the "new" scene-based model (which is I guess actually pretty old at this point) but it seems mostly unavoidable now that Ardour has switched to it in v7. Though I also think there's a lot of space on the low end of simple sequencers that the tracker renaissance is starting to fill.
Sorry, "switch" was the wrong word there, and I absolutely love the clip launcher. It's just kind of like the difference between editing text in a dumb editor vs an IDE or something like
slime; lowering the "cost" of trying stuff absolutely changes how you think about your music and what you do with it.