Could I be so stuck in my ways that I cannot see a radical departure from the norm as anything but a mistake and an inconvenience? So in order to do this software justice, I will endeavour to look at it through the eyes of someone who has no prior knowledge or experience of editing.
It could well be that my experience in this field is putting me at a disadvantage. There’s no Preview Window, no Browser to look for clips and drag them to the Timeline to build your edit, no Timeline even.