The new version of Autocolor that's coming out goes even deeper so you can color based on VSTs and other variables. I give my tracks prefix names like DRM, BAS, GTR, SYN, VOX, etc and Reaper autocolors the tracks for me based on how I set it up. You can make sense of your project at a glance
Track folders which act like busses (so you can put effects on the track folder) - so your submix bus routing can be seen visually with indents. So mixing and matching sample rates within one project is fine, if you need to do it. It just resamples on the fly using Voxengo's R8 Brain algorithm. Reaper handles any sample rates with ease. Reaper is updated all the time, and MOST of the updates are really deep obscure fixes that people uncover. Ever use a DAW that had cool features but it wasn't stable? That happens when engineers are driven by marketing bulletpoints for sales. Developers treat the little things as just as important as big things. Thanks to these thousands of scripts, if I can think of something Reaper can usually do it. The SWS extensions are pretty much a "must have" for anyone, and I'd go a step further and recommend the Reapacks, too. A truly incredible number of scripts which extend the power & function of Reaper. I mean in regard to function! Whenever something is repetitive or I don't like it, I change it. It almost never crashes in spite of making songs that push my machine to absolute limits. Simply put, I can use more VSTs/VSTis in Reaper than other DAWs. Efficiency, stability, and reliability. Here's a random sampling of why I like Reaper: Studio One had an appealing UI and good first impression, but Reaper was more efficient and more stable by leaps and bounds. This was some months before Bandlab took it over. It wasn't free and I didn't have my old license. When I came back, it was during the "between period" when Cakewalk's future looked uncertain. Then I had 4 kids and took a break from music for a while. I came up on Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 through SONAR many years ago. And better than Studio One which feels somehow very monochrome. Better than Reaper, which is more utilitarian. Something about the colors and graphics and layout. I still find Cakewalk to be my favorite DAW visually. So instead, Cakewalk will just live on as a still-capable tool for free. They'd just need to add some modern features and build it from ground up with a vectorial UI that supports 4k and future resolutions. 
In a perfect world, there would be enough investment to rewrite a modern, optimized version of Cakewalk - with the kind of stable and efficient code quality Reaper has. I still like how a lot of the UI and UX is designed, and ProChannel is cool. I'm primarily a Reaper guy these days, but I'll always have nostalgia for Cakewalk. Bandlab Studio is more of a simplified consumer thing. Cakewalk is a full featured DAW capable of anything.
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