Well, for one thing, in 2.8 at least, the crossfading plugin was built in, which quickly faded the track whenever you stopped it or went to another track. 3 doesn't do this?

The thing I didn't like about the SHIFT+V was that it stop-faded the track in about 1 or 2 seconds. That's so quick you can barely notice the fade! It would have been a lot better if you could adjust it so that it took like 5 seconds or something.

Of course, maybe you could and now I'm gonna look like an even bigger idiot