Gating/Auto-Splicing: An optical system for digital audio...?

Hello. I was on the subject of chopping up bits of audio in a DAW and wondered... have software developers ever considered using a visual method rather than (just) amplitude level to decide on gating (or splicing) audio...?
I mean, I can do it pretty much by eye because I recognise what drum attacks look like from start to end and where the signal returns back to approach 0dBFS.
And yet, if I want to transparently gate or splice audio without worrying about strange choices, I still have to do manually it seems to me. I can't trust a plugin not to chop it somewhere I don't want it to.
In an era of facial recognition, I'd expect someone could create something similar to provide more transparently/rounded gating and splice points.
Is there any software that can do this more intelligently now? I did ask a few years back, and the answers were really about there not being much demand for splicing software, as it's more for creaters of sample libraries than users.
Thanks
I mean, I can do it pretty much by eye because I recognise what drum attacks look like from start to end and where the signal returns back to approach 0dBFS.
And yet, if I want to transparently gate or splice audio without worrying about strange choices, I still have to do manually it seems to me. I can't trust a plugin not to chop it somewhere I don't want it to.
In an era of facial recognition, I'd expect someone could create something similar to provide more transparently/rounded gating and splice points.
Is there any software that can do this more intelligently now? I did ask a few years back, and the answers were really about there not being much demand for splicing software, as it's more for creaters of sample libraries than users.
Thanks