So if the dongle breaks, is lost, gets stolen or has been forgotten somewhere everything works fine if you’re without internet access? I mean, you cant really do much about that zero downtime unless you have access to your steinberg account (and a spare extra dongle) so… Can’t really see the difference there.
And if we ever have jobs where catastrophic failures like the ones you describe could happen we have redundancies like raid backups and an extra laptop ready for use if needed. I think that is common practice for most professional recording engineers/producers/composers/artists.
Also, talking about music production programs in terms of overall superiority is just unnecessary, since they’re all great and excel at different things. Doesn’t mean they can’t improve though, and when it comes to Cubase the licensing can be greatly improved!