Thank you @RobL for linking that older thread.
I was oblivious to this complaint about the red border, it never occurred to me it would also be a point of contention.
After reading the whole thread, I kind of understand Fredo’s first few comments here about the technicalities and what was said makes much more sense to me now. However, I can’t help but raise the point that in the other thread you were a strongly against inverted colours saying yourself along the lines that changing colours of events is a big no no for people in post production. Here you initially said this (what we have now) is “the best compromise”. It baffles me that this is considered a compromise… giving us the ability to turn on and off the outline, but not the inversion.
I have seen many people in the other thread and this one, not to mention all the countless people who do not frequent this forum (probably many hundreds more). We are opposed to the inverted colour method, reasons for which I and others have described in length. The main disagreement is with the way this major workflow upset has been “forced” upon us, from what we gather is due to Cubase users tastes primarily.
I’m sure i’m not alone in saying that despite using Nuendo 14 for a good while now, I still am not used to to inverted selection colour it messes with my concentration a lot and i’m seriously considering dropping my decades of patronage for Steinberg and moving to Reaper. I am not averse to change usually, but this has kind of crossed the line for me personally.
Steinberg need to seriously consider a way to make it work for us to have the choice. For everything else graphical we get the choice, but for this having an option to disable inversion and leave the outline is somehow deemed impractical from a technical point of view and low priority from a resources POV.
I really hope that this can continue to be a consideration for the development team; that a vast number of Nuendo users are unhappy with this and cannot just “get used to it”.