Question about effects in podcast workflow

I primarily edit long-form multi-speaker podcast audio. As such, I have a small number of long audio files that need some light cleanup before going into mixing. Recently, I've been falling more in love with the effects rack as a way to apply most of these fixes non-destructively and in a way that's easier both to replicate between episodes and tweak on-the-fly for each episode. There are a few usability issues, however, that are getting in the way, and I'd like to hear if there are workarounds that I'm not aware of:

Solution 1: Apply effects destructively to each audio file using the effects menu. This works fine, but is hard to change later, and if you do the editing in multiple sit-downs, then you can lose the history menu and, if you want to un-apply an effect (e.g. applied too harsh of noise reduction), then you need to start over from the original audio files.

Solution 2: Use effect presets, tweak the effects rack on the audio file, then apply the whole rack destructively. Presets are great. Destructive editing still isn't. Retaining episode-specific tweaks to those presets is untennable without cluttering the presets menu.

Solution 3: Use effects rack per-track in multi-track file (since mixing is always part of the process anyway). This can be saved non-destructively, and the effects I'm using are light enough that real-time processing is NBD. However, some effects sound different when applied to the whole audio file vs. when applied to a track where that audio file is chopped into pieces... in particular, the automatic noise removal tools work well when they work on the whole noisy audio clip, but behave very differently when that noisy audio clip is cutting in and out of an otherwise silent track in the multi-track session.

It seems like the ideal solution would be to be able to save the effects rack to the audio file non-destructively, and have those effects come through in the multi-track session. However, both of these seem not to be the case. For individual audio files, you must apply the effects rack or else it's lost entirely when Audition closes. Also, multi-track sessions apply their own effects, both track- and clip-specific, but aren't aware of the effects rack applied to the original audio file.

I was really starting to enjoy non-destructive editing, but if the effects will behave so differently in that context, I'll need to go back to applying effects to the underlying audio files to get the best results, and the only way to do that in any permanent, usable sense is destructively. Am I missing something? Is there a better workflow to use here?