i’d like to bring this topic up again, because EHVAH DSC posted the same thing here, and because the stickied Arranger-thread is getting some attention again.
i just re-read some of the stuff said above, and still feel this could be a small but useful addition to the Pattern Matrix. i can see how this functionality might eventually be available through the envisioned arranger, or the envisioned clips system. but to be perfectly honest: these are still just ideas, and rather big ones at that. compared to quite a small feature like this, it seems strange to me to want to wait for a hypothetical feature that incorporates this one, instead of just going for the feature by itself.
disclaimer: (i am, of course, also aware that this goes for lots of other features, and that 1000 tiny features make up a single arranger (sort of), and also that Conner_Bw or whoever did not +1 this idea is not a developer and just speculating)