Audio Exported Channels from Instrument Track Are STUCK/Bound to Instrument Channel?

This is a new one for me, I just exported a multi-track output from Groove Agent to audio tracks and they seem stuck to the Groove Agent Instrument channel - I can’t move them, and if I disable Groove Agent the audio tracks are disabled as well?

Don’t ever recall this previously using Cubase since SX3, am I missing something?

for some reason the audio channels are registered as instrument/midi channels?

had to drag the audio events off to new tracks.

This was recently reported by somebody else already.

Here is the topic mentioned by @Johnny_Moneto:
After rendering/exporting superior drummer individual channels unable to move audio tracks

I’m not seeing any mention in that topic of the issue being reported to Steinberg but it does highlight the cause and how to avoid it.

Be sure not to have one of the VSTi’s sub-track selected when you do the export. If you export and import to track in Cubase, it will usually put the newly created track under the currently selected track. If that is an instruments sub-track, this will result in the problem you encountered. Just select the main instrument track should be fine.