Jake,
What about keeping the shadows, midtones and highlight controls mapped how they are, but add the option to press alt and let the hightlight ball become the offset balance. Wouldn’t that be a more likely solution?
I fully agree on your comments. Been requesting the contrast and pivot a few times. Hopefully you’re right about their future implementation, that would be great!
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