This request is NOT about a delivery format… But an internal native recording file format. I personaly don’t use Nuendo to convert my audio files for delivery, i use better dedicated and specialized tools for that, tools that can handle anything, compressed or even destructive if it is what is asked by the client…
IMHO Nuendo is following the right path (the Reaper “opened” one ?) concerning inter-operability, i hope it will not change in the future because of such reactions… And i also hope Nuendo will develop “exotic” surround monitoring options that are still not supported yet (configurable by the user like in Reaper or AudioMulch, or many others).
Sorry for the OT, but it was the occasion 
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