I’m not seeing the connection between 3rd party plugin parameters being retained vs, VCA faders that are 1st party integrated based components of the DAW. Typically, there’s a period of time in a project where faders and plugin parameters aren’t committed and are free so it’s simply a nuisance to be starting off with these automation anchored points.
It needs to be fixed, I love Cubendo far above all the other DAWS, but this is just an embarrassing mistake(s).
Maybe the workaround works fine for people in post doing dialogue and library sound effects because things are already level optimized and flattened, so having VCAs and everything anchored at 0 isn’t a big deal…