I think separate adjustments requiring separate tracks will always be the case
Think outside the box, Jim! Why should this
always be the case? In the Fairlight page we can already go in and see each individual channel. It doesn't seem to be a huge leap of faith to think that at some point we might also be able to adjust the levels of those channels.
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It's only 'the norm' to have 1 timeline track per channel because Avid and Premiere don't have a suitable alternative. Resolve and FCP both do. FCP handles this well but Resolve has this pretty glaring limitation.
For what it's worth, my current workflow/workaround is basically to not worry too much about audio
(knowing that further down the line someone is going to mix it properly and will want every channel I can give them). For any sound that is particularly bad I'm muting the bad channels using clip attributes. Prior to sending to the sound mix I will use the 'convert to linked group' command in order to split each adaptive track out to mono.