I don’t know if this will be flagged as a duplicate, but since there seem to have no plans and some resistance despite the amount of complaints in regards to things like “Back Up Project, Save As and so on,” this one small change could help. And that involves how Cubase deals with created projects that are not saved.
When you create a Project via “Create Empty” and already have a default folder name in the settings, Cubase creates a folder with that name with the appropriate subfolder structure. If all the work you do in said project is just MIDI and VSTi work, once you close the project without saving, that folder is deleted. If you record or add audio files to this same empty project and decide to not save it like the first example, Cubase will not delete the folder even if you tell Cubase to delete the files. This behavior is inconsistent and part of many of the headaches involving multiple dangling folders that have nothing but no project files with “audio” and backup folders not being used and just taking space.
Is there a technical reason for the way both examples are not handled exactly the same? Why would anyone want to have several folders with nothing but unused audio files they’ll have to manually delete later because of this inconsistent behavior. Even if the behavior is changed to be consistent, this would not harm people who want that behavior, save projects inside folder with the default naming scheme and so on. This would also help people use “Backup Project” for what it was actually intended for, even though I still believe the handling of empty projects could be more flexible so extra functionality that’s technically just a variation of saving a project with some minor changes don’t need to exist.