Screen real estate is at a premium for me on 13"mbp, and the tool bar for me holds a lot of "set and forget" options. When I need it, I need it; otherwise my focus on the parameters or graphs. Scaling the gui down doesn't help much with visual clarity, i.e. small screen + old eyes.
There are times when I can have five or six plugins for different channels open set to 50% size to be able to watch the interactions, etc. I use a lot of MAV, side chains, and MADEQ when creating a mix.
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