Just as an exercise, try copying 100 entries from the soon to be discontinued Generic Remote over to the MIDI Remote and tell me how much fun you have.
To hang the prospect of discontinuing the GR over our heads while not providing a method of transferring, in some cases, thousands of GR entries over to the MIDI Remote is unfair. You do realise that some people have been developing their prefered workflow using the GR for decades don’t you?
I assume the only reason the pitchforks aren’t already out is because the GR is still there. Woe betide you when you do actually remove it.
Like not being able to change the ports once the surface has been created. And the functions browser not populating with plugin parameter names. Which means we have to use the Remote Control Editor from 1984 to determine which parameters we are actually controlling.