But we've already established that the automation should move, and it already does, so it's not what I'm asking about.
The question is when it's desirable to not
also move the item data associated with that automation.
For example, let's say I've drawn some volume data over notes to make them decay more rapidly than normal. This is contrived, but an example of how automation is something you draw to against audio data to achieve an effect:
Now, if ripple worked as I proposed, where automation and data always move together, it would look like this:
Resulting in this:
To me, that seems like what you'd always want.
Instead what happens is that my automation data is moved out of correlation with the data it was written for:
Resulting in this:
I can't come up with a scenario where you'd actually
want this. The only situation I can think of is if the automation data was something like an LFO, where it didn't correlate with the audio at all, in which case it's not that it would actually be
preferable, it's just that you wouldn't care.
Anyway, that's the question. You said there are "scenarios when it makes great sense" and I'm just trying to imagine what they are.