We are starting to evaluate our efforts to migrate to Connect Edition and with no "Menus" and ultimately Tasks being phased out, the question arises, "What does Bentley consider to be the Connect replacement for Tasks?"
There is only so much room in the ribbon. We used to use the Bill Steinbock MDL Barmenu for selecting items to draft. Sometimes, these were similar to a a settings manager item, but other times they were more like a task that was linked to a settings manager. And we had a unique barmenu mdf file for nearly every file/model type we had in our standards. I experimented making tasks from these and found that I ended up with many many task toolboxes. Far more than I think would be feasible to put into the ribbon.
And we tested enabling Tasks in Connect, but we actually will be using Open Road Designer and when you enable tasks in ORD, it breaks the Workflow menu, where a number of the workflows disappear and the only way to restore them is to disable tasks. If this bug can be fixed, I'd be content using tasks, as they look a lot like Tool Palettes in AutoCAD so I don't have to train a new "convert" how they work. As far as the bug is concerned, its been reported and supposed to have a defect report, but a number of new releases have been issued (more than 4) and it is still broken.
Basically you're stuck with the ribbons unless you start working on other interface options like screen menus, vb apps etc. I have a similar issue with an extensive build I just can't deliver as effectively using the ribbon interface. an interface I have issues with in the first place. One option I have looked at which we will use to some extent is to use named expressions to control turning on and off different ribbons. It's an easy way to deliver discipline ribbons like we used to do with tasks, but it's far from being as neat.