Mono and Stereo audio tracks

Hi everybody.

I think the whole mono to stereo is a mess in premiere pro.

If I look at Protools for example, there is clearly a difference between a mono and a stereo track. And, if you take two mono clips that you drag onto a stereo track, they'll fit in that stereo track and play stereo. And vice versa, if you take a stereo clip, on a stereo track, and you bring it over two mono tracks, they'll split and behave mono.

Premiere is lacking this basic feature. Tracks are... I don't even know if they're mono or stereo. If you bring a stereo clip, it's stereo, if you bring a mono clip, it's mono.

You can split a stereo clip by going into the audio attributes of the clip in the media bin, and make it play dual mono. But there's no way to take two mono clips (L and R side of a song for example), and make them behave like a stereo clip. In my case, I'm opening an AAF that has all the audio split out in mono, and now my whole session has a ton of mono clips, that I can't bring back to stereo. I've talk to customer support, and they assure me that this was not possible.

So, would there be a way to make this happen? being able to take two mono clips, and dragging them into a stereo track, and vice versa?

The fact that the split from stereo to mono has to be done at the clip level is ridiculous. That means that if you've forgotten to split your stereo track with 2 lavs from your camera before derushing for example, and you're now done after 2hours, and you want to split them... good luck, since changing them at the clip level won't affect the timeline. I've had to export an AAF, splitting it into mono, and reimport to solve that issue.

Can the audio part of Premiere PRO actually be PRO?
If splitting a stereo clip into two mono tracks can be done, why can't the other way be possible?
Could there be a clear visual difference between a mono and stereo tracks, and then we can have the possibility of moving things around?

Thanks!