I agree, I was very happy when the montage master section was added. I never cared for the global master section approach. I’ve made a workflow that allows me to never use it. I do any SRC using a 3rd party app and then do “Custom Montage Copy” to recreate the montage at new sample rates. Basically, all my processing besides dither is done at 96k and a 3rd party app does the resampling. Because I don’t need the Resampler, I don’t need the global master section.
I also do the analog gear portion of the mastering in REAPER but I do move over to WaveLab to finish the job, or for 100% “in the box” projects.
Hopefully it gets sorted.