yeah right, they (Steinberg) are just smarter then Bitwig \ FL Studio \ Abletone \ Reaper \ Logic \ Studio One \ Pro Tools. These companies are so dumb! No wonder why nobody are buying their products! 
Steinberg are much more successful that’s why we (customers) have to pay 100$ a year for so called upgrades that actually are minor updates.
Without irony: I wouldn’t recommend any of my friends invest into Cubase\Nuendo now. In my country on a beginner\middle level of productions (live bands \ electronic music) it will never payback. Also it’s too much for a one time fee ($800) and there is no payments in instalments.
I am just on the needle and too old and lazy to re-learn. Nevertheless I still need to switch to FL \ Abletone for advanced sounds design because Cubase simply doesn’t belong to Electronic music production niche. And with a flow of time it’ll become even more behind. Because nobody use it for electronic music and nobody do that specific feature requests. People here wants mono-to-stereo tracks and whistles & bells 
Just compare views on new version videos of different DAW and google sound-design tutorials. Numbers are drastically different. And you will likely never found something useful made in Cubase nowadays.
PS: and actually this rant is my butthurt because I realized that I’ve invested into the wrong DAW. Not because of dongle or whatever. Cubase is just not feets my needs.