Good thoughts on this @smcmillian.
I have quite a lot of automation that run off of calculated properties. Such as triggering alerts when a contact record is associated with more than 5 open tickets in a specific pipeline. The calculated property would need to have 2 conditions - Pipeline AND open status.
To do this in today’s portal I instead have to create additional properties, workflows, etc to create a single property that can be used in a condition.
The other thing to note is that calculated properties are available to certain Hubs and grades, datasets require the purchase of opshub enterprise. It’s a bit of a hard sell when a complicated workaround comes at no additional cost (If we’re not talking sanity or system health 
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