Cubase 11 ARA folder is gigantic from using Melodyne

Has anyone found a solution or explanation to this issue? I haven’t found any solution other than to render and disable the Melodyne tracks, but that erases some of the workflow advantages with ARA2. Also, it doesn’t seem to be all that stable, as ARA/Melodyne edits often seems lost, when disabling Melodyne tracks.

I have also discovered that doing a backup of a project with Melodyne edits, erases all Melodyne edits, as I have reported here, which at least in my book doesn’t qualify as a backup.

What is worse is that I have yet, after över a month, to receive even an acknowledgement from Steinberg support of the issue. This makes me question if we can actually continue to label this as a “Pro” product. The least you can expect from support is at least a reply that they are looking into the issue or dismiss it as WAD (working as designed). But I haven’t even got that. Not a single reply. Is this common with Steinberg?