How about a unified program for installing, downloading, managing, etc.?

[Christian_R]

Hi @thecoast, and welcome back to the Forum.

For some useful informations about some of your request, see here:

Installed Elements 4 but still starts up as SE 4

Yes, indeed, we’re well aware of that! We do plan to combine the functionality of Steinberg Download Assistant, Steinberg Activation Manager and Steinberg Library Manager into a single application in future, but it’s quite a big job.

and here:

Dorico installation on macOS is very clunky and atypical for macOS

Others in the thread have given a good explanation for why Dorico isn’t installed purely by simply dragging and dropping an application package into the Applications folder. Dorico itself is a totally standard macOS application and is self-contained within the application package, but it relies on a number of other external components to operate fully. Steinberg’s many applications share components, and many Steinberg customers use several of our products. It’s wasteful – not only in terms of y…