Here’s my wild idea:
Give users a choice on whether additional pickup machines are slaves.
I have not had any issues with master pickup machines that couldn’t be fixed by more RTFM/asking on the forums.
Slave pickup machines OTOH are buggy, so if I wanted to use two pickup machine tracks, I’d rather both of them be “master” than one be slave to the other. I would gladly give up the length multiplier - never got much use out of the 2nd pickup machine having 2x or 4x the length of the first. anyway - to have the 2nd pickup machine be its own master instead of a slave. There is a master clock in the OT anyway, so I don’t see the need to sync the 2nd pickup machine directly to the first when both are being controlled by the master clock.