sure, you can work around this by adding a utility to bring up or down the overall levels but it's pretty inconvenient to have your track's gain buried in its devices, especially when working across multiple tracks. the point of faders are to have quick access to balancing the gain of all your tracks all at once, so we want to leave these free to make adjustments at any time.

using utility to write in gain automation from the beginning is an easy fix for this: