One of the fundamental idioms in LabVIEW is "never use a local variable when wiring directly from/to the control will suffice." As many of us know, local variables break the dataflow paradigm and should only be used in cases that necessitates them.
No doubt there is much value to using references to front panel controls in architectures such as a QSM, however, I felt like I was commiting sacrilege every time I was forced to wire these references from local variable-like reference nodes while leave dangling controls hanging about.
Every control has a reference to it under the hood, so why not have the ability to show a reference terminal on the control itself; this way we can start our reference wiring straight from the control itself.
Control Values
Control References
I suggest we show/hide the reference terminal using the same method Shared Variables show/hide the timestamp terminal