As a relatively new visitor to these shores, this is exactly how I see it. I have experience of several other DAWs over the last three decades and, in comparison to most, Cubase now feels like a product that’s out of control and running away from the development team. It feels very much like a product in desperate needs of a rewrite as they did with SX - take Frankendaw out the back and put it out of its misery.
I’d dearly love to switch 100% to Cubase because there is so much that’s amazing about it, but until they change their contemptuous policy of releasing half-baked features and expecting multiple payments to fix them, I’m afraid I can’t commit.