It does not tell you what is wrong. So you have to dig inside the project.
When it's some media missing, you finally get to where the problem lies, and you get a red screen and a line of text that tells you "Missing File", so you finally know what's wrong and you can remedy.
But in the case of missing plug-in, no explanation. I get a red screen where the plug-in is missing, but it does not tell you anything else. Hard to know what's going on. Granted, the red screen looks different, a strip of film with some sort of overlay layer - hint hint.
It would be so helpful and immediate to have at least a line of explanation: "Missing Plug-in", or "Missing Effect" would be great. Just like we get "Missing File" when some media is gone awol.
In addition, or alternatively, the question mark/yellow triangle could pop onto the missing plug-in in the Effects window, and / or in the Video Animation. (Currently nothing happens.)
That would make tracking down missing plug-ins a breeze.
Next would be to display some Metadata (Right-Click) for the plug-ins, which would give you the info as to where the hell they are coming from, say if you want to download or buy them to finalize a project.
Currently you only have the name and that's it. Good luck tracking down the developer, especially with generic names like "Vignette"...
I can see how using many custom Effects / Plug-ins can quickly become a troubleshooting nightmare when sharing projects.
Update:
After digging into the FCPX manual, I have to say there is a pretty thorough list of alerts.
Still it would be so helpful to have text in addition to the icon itself (like the Missing File one), so one doesn't have to learn all these...
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