Hello metallo,
Of course we would like to have all Cubase features inside Cubasis, but Cubase took over 20 years of development to reach it’s current state. If we would have tried to put everything inside from the first version that first version would not be available yet. So we decided to release a solid streamlined first version that would satisfy many users needs already and we are putting features incrementally inside while reacting to new technologies (e.g. IAA, Audiobus). Automation will be in 1.8 and this will lay the ground for tempo and meter changes. These two will come then in a future update.