I guess I'm not actually trying to argue against the feature. It makes plenty of sense to me. I'm not sure I'd ever use it, or at least I'm not missing it now. As long as it's not implemented in such a way as to interfere with MY workflow, it's kinda no skin off my nose. As far as I'm concerned, you can have it.
It's not clear to me why you need any extra plugins aside from the clipper you want to add, but I don't know much about what you're doing, and given that the mere idea of 1000 tracks just freaks me out, I'm not sure I want to know either. But that's a joke of course, if you want to describe a typical chain, I'd be happy to help you figure out how to make it work.
I do take a little (not much) exception to the term "workaround". In my mind, it's more like "how it works in Reaper".