By that logic any annotation should be shift-x text!
Well, until the moment there’s an “Avoid collisions” toggle on playing techniques (as has been requested in the past) I will indeed keep occasionally abusing staff text for that purpose.
For what it is worth, (having just tried entering “espressivo”) I think it would be worth considering to change the function name to “Dynamics Expression” and just let us put in any text that would have a consistent font, and the “standard” dynamics, like f or pp would be formatted accordingly.
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