Here are some of my thoughts from a while ago: New thought: 16 patterns of a bank as a 2D grid
This particular setup is nice for the problem you’re describing because it abstracts musical ideas away from their implementations on specific tracks. In each bank I can use whatever tracks I want to implement whatever musical ideas, but each bank uses patterns in the same way to achieve different musical feels (more rhythm/less rhythm, more harmony/less harmony).
This way, when coming back to old projects/banks, I can still control them reasonably without needing to know the details of how they were done.
I think this idea has more usefulness in some genres than others, but it has worked well-enough for me.
Hope that helps.