Honestly i don’t think the accessibility of tools is the actual root problem, but rather a problem that comes from the fact that we currently have tools and modal operators in parallel. While it might make sense to find a way to access tools and operators side by side for now, i don’t think that should be the focus of development. In the long run it’s important to find one solution that is flexible enough to work for different occasions:
- beginners or advanced users
- keyboard based or gizmo based workflows
- artistic tools or technical tools.
So the goal should be to further improve the toolsystem so it will supersede the modal operator tool workflow and remove direct access to modal operator tools.
The currently difficult to solve problem of accessibility would then be solved rather naturally as there wouldn’t be multiple systems in parallel.
I’ve written a proposal a while back on how the toolsystem could be improved for selection based tools specifically (comment in https://developer.blender.org/T66304)