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honestly I like having the playlists not get edited. I very frequently will have a full length, :60, :30, :15 and sometimes even a :7 edit of the full length. Instead of having protools sessions and/or tracks all over the place...I just select the all group, choose duplicate playlist on the first track and add the name of what it is going to be (30, 60, etc) and then make the edits...then duplicate again and make another smaller edit and so on...
It makes it very organized for me to have all my different versions on alternate playlists in one PT session. I would be kinda pissed if they made it so that every playlist would get edited if you did one. But on the other hand I can see your dilemna. It's a tough call.
You do know you can move all those alternate playlists to new tracks very quickly?
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All the more reason to make it a Preference choice. It should be a simple thing to make global edits have a preference setting so that you can work your way and I can work my way. I don't want it either/or but both!
It would be hard for me to explain to the record companies that "all your versions are in the same session", they like to see separate sessions for each version of the mix (album version, AC lite, AC aggressive etc.), although I think your method is kinda cool. But it seems like it might be difficult to work that way if I'm using playlists for 10 alternate vocal takes, alternate guitar takes etc. and have 60 or more total tracks in the song.
I do know you can put the playlists to separate tracks, but there again you have to go through another step to get there, AND you have to go through another step to unhide those tracks when you need to edit a song. And then REhide the tracks. Once I comp the vocal, I don't want to see those tracks much, but I'd like to have the option to grab a phrase if in the eleventh hour of the mix if I don't like the performance of the vocal in a certain spot.
I put in the feature request and they said they'd red flag it. Sounds like there's not a workaround except for using real tracks and unhiding them so for now that's what I'll do.