[psytrancefan]

I think the use cases are just too wide and varied. If someone made me the perfect DAW for my needs, it would be so narrow they would quickly go out of business.

The DAW has to cover so many different use cases and styles that I don't see how you can get around the complexity upfront.

A 6 year old could plug in a guitar and record the audio with any editing software. Once you want multiple tracks though and real time effects on those tracks and midi then you are already at the flavor of most DAWs.