Yeah but someone who wanted a Casio keyboard but bought a Digitone II instead would be like “where’s the keyboard”
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It’s called synth programming for a reason. 
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But also, you can just play it, nobody’s going to stop you…
I have this experience as well, both with DN2 and DT2. I did not have that problem on the OG DT or Syntakt.
That being said, I absolutely love the DN2 though, but it might not be the hardware for you.
A nice MIDI keyboard can really unlock the “playing” part of digitone’s tracks. It’s quite a fun one to play once you start getting the hang of using it this way.
As for recording in a sequence that you’re playing live, you might need to make the step rate faster so it catches your faster triggering onto its own step. The sequencer step divider needs to be set up to catch the fastest note division in the sequence. Otherwise you can go through the triggers you recorded and set retriggers on the ones that it missed. I do wish recording rolls/retriggers directly into a sequence with modifier buttons while you’re playing was a little easier like it is on my Sonicware synths, but I feel like maybe it’s possible and I don’t know how yet.
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Search the forum for midi loopback. Problem solved.
The LFOs can be used as envelopes.
It’s a tracker, there’s no such thing as smooth automation. I reckon they’ll probably add parameter slides eventually, but it might be years away, who knows, might never get added.
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Of course. But if you’re interested in designing your own patches you better get used to synth programming.
You can try track layering for more complex sounds.
You could also try the MIDI loopback hack that’ll give you two more LFOs.
Hands are two slower LFOs too.
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We might be years away from a feature that already existed in Elektron products 15 years ago? 
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Its called progress.
And its not limited to niche electronic music gear.