The MC falls down on “at a glance” visibility, especially in a crowded mix zoomed right out. It could be elegantly solved by following the arrange page view where, if you click on a track it widens a whatever size users decide allowing easy visibility so you know what track your editing.
If the mix console followed this, it would be so easy to see which channel/track on the MC is in focus, it would also assist with use of the (horrible) pop up buttons and reading the insert names. It would also allow for sensible key mapping of the insert slots in an the selected wider channel allowing for the pop up buttons tons to be got rid of.