Logic behind nerfing the MLIE in DS4.5?

cwichura

The MLIE has been seriously screwed up in DS4.5. While it will load existing .dsi files, it seems to covert everything to scene-local storage. It doesn't let you save out a .dsi file for re-use anymore. And editing MLIEs is a mess now, with it creating new MLIE instances every time you go in to edit after testing the results in the viewport/render.

Why was the MLIE screwed with? I don't see any new functionality in it to warrant destroying the user experience. The MLIE was a convenient feature for combining things right within Studio. Now I'm forced to use Photoshop to pre-create my MLIE layers since the Studio UI is so user hostile now.