It’s disappointing really, how development has seemingly descended into an almost ‘stop’ state. People are putting hundreds of hours into trying to make scripts for other users, which just seems wrong to not support those alone by fixing some of the very obvious bugs which has lead to most using workarounds.
It’s when you add in the users who can’t get what they want out of the UI side of things where it gets even worse though, especially after the promises made.
I still think the MIDI Remote is one of the standout features of Cubase, but like many other good features within Cubase, they never seem able to get things over the line. Just a few tweaks and additions is all people want, just to show some forward momentum and that this is an active development still.
It feels that Steinberg are in the game of making the largest changes for maximum appeal for paid releases, and quickly lose interest (or more likely lack of budget) to get those same features polished off and working for end users. It takes quite a number of revisions to get these things ‘right’.
(IMO) MIDI Remote should always have been a public beta so all these dicussions were had in the open up front.