Question

Adding a freeze button would help immensely for engineers who are mixing projects with large track (and Effects) counts, allowing them to prioritize and managing resources.

Answer 1

I solve this by adding most plugins as Event FX directly to the events. It's easy to render those and there will be an icon added to each event which got this functionality activated or rendered.

But yes, you can also use the "Transform to Rendered Audio", but that method feels more destructive since it will forget all about the plugins which where there.. so you cannot change anything later. Or am I wrong?