Well put. I would just add my 2 cents. We’re trapped guys - Cubase is the most sophisticated DAW on the market and for this amount of money you can get nothing better. To be fair 8.5 works fine for me probably because I have a very simple setup, of course there are very annoying old bugs here and there but they don’t stop me. And in fact we have no choice because all the rest DAWs are nothing better.
It was pretty funny to hear from the Marketing Director that he is “struggling with the current workload, preparing next week’s Cubase 8.0.35 release”. I can imagine an engineer or a programmer who struggling with the current workload because they’re involved into the bug fixing process, but Marketing Director?! 
. Or Steinberg is that much small company and that bearded man is all-in-one?