The flip-side of this is, you don’t get anywhere near the features or productivity from any of the competitors, period.
The reason for this is simple:
Steinberg create the standards as one arm, the second being the applications (cubendo) that implement those glorious and infinitely workable standards, third, product development continues in other realms such as plugins and software that again implement the standards Steinberg create.
SB thanking me?
For what…
making the product I buy better in the long run because I chose to be a part of a great endeavour?