You can have the CR enabled. Just assign Mix2 as stereo output in vst connections. I have it set that way. It only shows hardware tab in the inspector if the input and output of the track is routed to any of the physical outputs. (e.g. input 1 → mix2) As soon as you have the stereo out set to not connected as you normally would with CR enabled it disappears. Same when routing audio track to a group.