Howdy allmyhoney,
First of all, I know how you feel. I hate being stuck between two worlds.
On our free support forums our hands are a bit tied with plugin conflicts. It just takes too much time/money to support, taking away time and money for development.
However, we do strive to make our plugins compatible with other plugins when those developers would enjoy working with us. This is something that could happen in time with Panel Builder. I see that it is also a very popular plugin. Assuming that the two can be made compatible and Panel Builder wants to work with us, then we could each release updated versions that are specifically compatible. However, I see that they are releasing a 2.0 complete rewrite of their plugin. It probably makes sense to wait until after that release, the two might become compatible simply by virtue of the code update.
I appreciate your bringing this to our attention. Perhaps one of our other users here has faced a similar dilemma and can chime in with a fix they found?
Cheers!
– Brook