Switched to Dorico from Finale two years ago. Very happy with that!
What I really miss is some of the functionalities mr Williamsson brought to Finale with his amazing plug-ins. And some more:
This has been requested many times.
Regarding the filter UI - apparently it is technically difficult to change.
Don’t forget, Dorico will let you program two-step keycommands which can help with this too. I use Ctrl/Cmd+F and then a modifier for all my commonly used Filter commands, so I’m not diving through the Filter menu that often.
The frustration I have is the need to go in multiple times to select/deselect specific items, then having deselected you have to reset it to select again.
Yeah, it’s not ideal. I hadn’t done it, but you can set a shortcut for Select or Deselect if that helps.
One thing I liked about Finale’s Filter command is that you could easily specify what elements would be selected all on one window.
For years in Finale I had requested a “Filter Set” type of feature, where you could assign a group of Filters that could be recalled with a single command. Oh well.
I myself use Elgato Stream Deck for filtering in/out, so the clunky UI is no big problem to me personally. (Filter in/filter out-buttons brings me to a SD menu/page with my most used elements). Still I feel that the filter does not fit the dropdown menu system very well and would operate smoother with its own filter window. Easier to filter multiple elements.
