To be fair I can see whether I have a power window or a key on a node right away based on the thumbnail. And as I said before, with curves, the tabs are a bit messy right now, if you don’t have the discipline to organize yourself in some sort of way.
I don’t think it’s the nodes that are the problem but the tabs – clicking a node or clicking a layer is pretty much the same thing (esp if nodes can be labeled) but checking tabs is the problem. Right now every new feature in Resolve gets a new tab, and at some point it’s going to become impractical.
IF (and this is an if) Resolve will want to grow their effects capabilities to compete more directly with some of the other all in one packages out there they will have to have some sort of more dynamic control area that can be customized.