stacked or joined components... that would be interesting. you could take a simple multiblend or switch and let's say each only had 5 nodes (not counting the opacity nodes in multiblend) and you could put two of these in the workspace and then 'dock' them together to get a double multiblend. heck, you could even start with one node on each and just stack/dock as many as you liked together. tricky
that could lead into all sorts of other components being stacked/docked to each other for multi effects.
hmmm, how about stacking profile gradients such that if you docked one on one side of an existing profile gradient it would treat it one way and if you stacked it on another side, it would treat it in a different manner? you could eliminate those multi-profile gradient trees we've used in the past.
If wishes were horses... there'd be a whole lot of horse crap to clean up!
Craig