I suspect this has been requested before as I seem to remember it being asked for in the early days of Cubase VST but Steinberg please consider introducing a public beta program for cubase/nuendo.
It would be an ideal way to engage your core users and would help filter out some of the inevitable bugs and “features” that Steinberg helpfully include in every release.
Additionally it would help manage expectations and disappointments when final versions are released. For example simply labelling existing updates as “beta” would stop 99% of the whinging and annoyance when looooong waited for updates fail to deliver.
If you called 10.0.30 a beta and described the limitations (32bit proccessing/no fade/volume handles/post comp) I bet most on this forum would be saying how brilliant it was
seriously SB, please consider it.