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The way it works actually works correctly. Just tested the theory. For example if you make it a 7/4 time signature (which is 7 beats per mesure, on a quarter note basis), and chose the note snapping to 1/4 they will snap to their correct beat as 7 quarter notes per beat. The note snapping correspond to note length. for triplets (like in bluesy style music) that plays 3 notes per beat on quarter notes beats, you use 1/12 in the length snap. Sextuplets would be 1/24. Rule of thumb for triplets here: take the lenght of a note and multiply it by 1/1.5 that gives you the same legth in a triplet. There is no 1/3 (triplets of half notes) or 1/6 (triplets of quarter notes) though in Dreams, but they can be created. Simply draw your triplet eigths notes double, on a 1/12 snap, each notes would take 2 snap positions, 3 of those notes create quarter notes triplets (3 quarter notes played over 2 beats), I just tested it and it works just fine.
The display is not based off a 4 beats bars. You can change it in the timeline settings to whatever time signature you need, the note length snap (not the grid snap, it's a different beast and you should never use it for placing notes). But I believe if you change the time signature from 4/4 to 7/4 (7 beats per minutes and select the quarter note as the beat basis) but you already have placed notes they will probably not be synced correctly anymore, so you need to resnap their start and end, they should resnap to the correct note position. Now the best way to avoid problems would be to plan in advance what time signature you want for that part in your track. Believe me no softwares using piano rolls would fix it for you if you change the time signature of a bar. The notes you stamp will keep their length until you resnap it they should be fixed.
Sorry for that long explanation but I believe some theory about music is useful to understand how music creation software works and how to solve your issues. If your notes are not aligned anymore after changing the number of bars per beats and its base beat length, just resnap the notes to the correct positions. That's how music editing software works if you understand the theory behind it.