AAF please

I just scored 45 minutes of music for a TV show. The editor sent me the final edit of all the music tracks in AAF format so I could check everything before mixing. There was no way Cubase “Pro” 8 could read this, so I had to download and install the ProTools 11 trial, open the AAF there, export an OMF and import that into Cubase. How “pro” is that? This is ridiculous. Do I need to buy PT in order to handle basic stuff such as this? Nuendo is beside the point here, I don’t need advanced audio post-production software because I’m not mixing the program. I just need to compose to video and AAF import is an absolute necessity when doing that.