Fwiw, this entire debate is going pretty much exactly like one of my first forays into the other place's waters.
I was lobbying for global blocks and most people were just telling me how they'd never need such a thing and how I'd be too stupid to program my patches properly before using them live, etc. Interestingly enough, it turned out that most of those folks never gig. Yeah, way to go.
It also turned out that by now (years later) quite some folks seem to understand how global blocks could be extremely useful to have. Heck, *the* role model of a flagship modeler, if there ever was one, has that functionality. And rest assured, it hasn't been added because I was asking for it... so there might be other folks to actually find that a decent idea.