VSE basic fading effects

How about some fading effects :

• Horizontal blinds
• Vertical blinds
• Checker fading effects
• Other patterns, like we have patterns in nodes.
• Circular grow (from center).
• Rounded box (in and outside versions).

Also be able to control the speed of those effects as curve controls, the recent 5.0 updates did not realy make it easy to adjust it as such.

• Animated fading effects :
  • random fading dots
  • random fading (checkers) (randomly more blocks apear)
  • random fading pixels
  • pixel explosion (revealing the below strip)

Or maybe even have the option to use nodes, for fading effects.

Also it may be nice to have an option to write notes in the VSE timeline (ea "add drone footage later here" ).