You are totally right for textures,
and I loved them on certain UI, just see the Native Damage Kontakt Instrument interface, it is
gorgious :P
But do wee need such textures for our Daw ?
If you take a close look at every new
theme on Reaper stash, few of them have this kind of textures. Actually, they often use
Things for which vector is meant to be
REAPER has always wanted to have a lightweight customizable and compatible with all kind of computer (low performance or high performance).
We could maybe have some places for Bitmap, and other for vectors... ?
Here is a
Pro & Cons recap for Vector based GUI. I didn't find a lot of other resources about this subject.