The drawing cables between ports part is what works, even if the animated dangling is a little silly when they could be neatly routed.
What's terrible about those Pro Audio UIs is the arrays of fiddly little knobs arranged in the same cramped pattern they are on the hardware. They have improved the usability over the years by making the dials effectively sliders -- scrubbing on an arc is just a degenerate case of scrubbing on one axis.
The worst are plugins that have these cramped UIs but aren't representative of physical hardware -- some are worse than the worst Kay's Power Tools UIs.
What's terrible about those Pro Audio UIs is the arrays of fiddly little knobs arranged in the same cramped pattern they are on the hardware. They have improved the usability over the years by making the dials effectively sliders -- scrubbing on an arc is just a degenerate case of scrubbing on one axis.
The worst are plugins that have these cramped UIs but aren't representative of physical hardware -- some are worse than the worst Kay's Power Tools UIs.