I love the cables,perceptual chaos told me years ago it helps you understand the signal chains easier which i find has been one of the best pieces of advice anyone has ever given me.I understand whats happening to the sound better becuase of that.....i think...
Its mostly automatic anyway.
I will no doubtedly be moving on to logic next year at school but i still really like how reason is so easy to get stuff happening really fast and i will continue to use it frequently, i get bored quickly unless something cool happens in the first 20 minutes and after you have built up some decent patches and drums(especially with kong)it often takes just a few minutes to start whipping up a tune.