Folks, please don’t confuse the Transport Panel (floating, F2 turns it on and off) with the thing at the bottom of the screen which is called the Transport Bar.
The Transport Panel has been a UI feature of Cubase since the Atari days. I understand that some people don’t like this but you can just press F2 to turn it off. Nobody is suggesting to make any changes to the Transport Bar that many of you love.
The Transport Panel in 10.0.30 is still horrible, was a change nobody asked for any has decreased the usability of the application enormously.
Of course, if you never knew it was there in the first place, it won’t matter to you; but please don’t confuse the two!