This thread is quite interesting! And necessary, I guess.
It also reminds me a little of waaay back in the day when I designed custom ”skins” for a certain DAW, and some users went bananas because I'd had the audacity to use sliders instead of knobs for some objects. Well, now, didn’t I know that the freaking knob was “standard” on hardware?
(Eventually the “skin” became among the popular - despite the non-standard look. But that’s another story.)