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You don't have to choose between automation safe and other safe modes.
All the functionality of recall safe is on the recall safe tab of snapshots. You can be in, say, bank safe and still set up all your automation safeing on that tab.

Also, when "making stereo", I grab the 1st channel where I want it to be, then go get the last channel on the console as its mate. That way, you don't have the extra step of blank channel deletion.