Indeed, the behavior of Steiny is, well... a model of what shouldn't exist. And I agree, at least to a certain extent, about the moldability of reaper. OTOH, some things remain irritating in Reaper to me : the strange bahavior of the recarm/recmon couple of buttons, the rather confusing routing setup which has to be made to set up a multichannels/multiouts VSTi, the impossibility to add custom controls in the track panel, whether directly or via Walter (I'm thinking about controls such as 'Set track timebase' or one to directly access to the VSTi window used on the track, i.e.), and, yes, the lack of a track inspector or, at least, a second mixer view for this purpose...
About the layouts, criticism is welcome ! I will remember that you are nearly the only one here who took his time to test, report back issues and make suggestions about my theme. This helps a lot...
. Now, as I already said, if I was to add new layouts it will probably be in another new theme. There are already too much of them in this one, IMO...