“Steinberg has always blamed this on some kind of apparent “Windows 7” or “Windows XP” behaviour.”
Some people make excuses. Others find solutions.
I don’t care for workspaces and multi-screen. There should be an option in General Settings to make the project window the background of Cubase. As well, maximizing the mixer shouldn’t take up the whole screen, same thing with F11 vsti list, auxiliary windows should only maximize to content size.
Same thing with the prehistoric plugin list. Scrobbling thru those text menus, without image, without search engine is middle-age, inability to reorganize freely without physically moving the dll on the HD is absurd. Inability to rearrange freely vst3 plugins is even worse. For this reason, I have to stick with vst2 when vst3 versions are available. We need unlimited inserts per track as well. This is 2012, not 1998. Wake up Steinberg, do something. Do your job.