You’re welcome @T_Boyle. This is required because Hardware Mode removes the onscreen Crossfader. So if you connect a device that doesn’t have a physical crossfader, there are situations where the crossfader could potentially be on one side or the other and the user would have no way of knowing why they have no audio output on one of the decks.
We do have an existing Suggestion Topic for disabling the Crossfader if you would like to upvote it.
