I was wondering why they did remove that so important feature, and hoping they would bringing it back.
But in fact, in preferences i did the “disable AOT for all your plugins” and for myself it behaves the same as it was in the Cubase 7 with option preferences “AOT for all your plugins” activated.
It’s only my workflow but like that i don’t have to switch anymore with the option “AOT for plugin off” when i want to drag and drop external sample to my sampling plug-in.