The newer seed uses a high resolution time counter. I guess it will produce a small number with many decimal points. This seems to work better on 32-Bit app than a big number randomseed. On x64 it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I saw the hires counter on a demo panel from atom. You can learn a lot when you check all demo panels carefully.
“in some cases”: I would say you have to use “interim” variables in some cases when you are accessing modulators such as panel:getModulatorByName etc.