I feel so stupid for not noticing this earlier but..............
I just found out that, not only can you change values by clicking and dragging the mouse (yes I did know about the SHIFT command for fine editing, but if you click on a control you can change its value with the scroll wheel on the mouse
That's a game changer for me! No quite as much of a game changer as beeing able to double click and type a value on the keyboard would be, but an awesome feature nonetheless