Yeah, but maybe Reaper could be in the frontline of the battle of achieving great midi recording timing by including a "midi timing skew" of some kind. If I could just drag a slider to manually calibrate the midi to a specific amount of time (ms) or samples, I would probably not even write this comment right now
Its interesting that Cubase show the same behavior though. No reason to jump ship then. Regarding the "record what you hear", there seems to be quite a few problems with this if you read through the threads describing this method.
Having the option to easily insert a vsti as a metronome in the metronome dialogue would also be great.