Oh, fuck that. "That which I look at" and "that which I touch" are in different planes. Always have been, always will be. Ergonomics is not a minor issue - "that which can be done easily" is far more likely to be a part of any person's workflow than "that which can be done." All these whizz-bang touchscreens are being driven by ad flacks who watched Minority Report and realized they could sell that. In Hollywood, you can put interfaces like that in after you shoot which allows you to skip the 24-frame playback. Don't for a minute think that they're at all useable.
What about the pane between the engineer and the band being a display screen though? Meaning it only shows what the computer screen shows the engineer. I could see that being beneficial without being cumbersome. But just because you can create something, doesn't mean you should or that there is a market there for it.
Besides, we do this in TV all the time: any output from any camera I care to look at has levels from every track superimposed on the image as I see fit. I'm never not looking at levels when I'm watching the monitor.