There are still scenarios where one might want to hide the only layer in a score, so I won't force a layer to always be visible. Having said that, I'm moving forward with displaying a popup if you try to place an annotation on a page when the active layer is not visible. I can also look into applying a strikethrough effect on the layer name when it's not visible. Gray does not show up well at all on an e-ink screen, so I feel that trying to gray it out would make it really difficult to read the layer name and it might not be obvious that it's supposed to look disabled.
Mike
Mike