I don't mark anything up. In documentaries I use ScriptSync to find pieces of interview, nothing else. In other words, all the interviews are transcribed and synced and I don't ever go back to the clips – the transcripts are my "master clips" as it were.

yes this!

yes! I miss this too. I think it was the advent of the SmartTool that changed the behavior. The problem is there is no way to deselect the SmartTools, only to toggle it. Avid, many of us work in "source/record" mode for most of our editing –– please please make it so one button can bring me to that mode!