I honestly don’t know if Steinberg could even purchase iZotope if they wanted to. If it weren’t for that it would bad, but maybe Steinberg knows PG is here each day and leans on that a little bit instead of using resources on official support channels for WaveLab. I’ve also heard from others that Steinberg official support (at least for WaveLab) is not great but luckily we have A+ support from PG here on this forum. As far as I know they invented the VST format so I think they could be more helpful about making sure plugin developers can make more stable VST plugins. I think Steinberg could do a better job of outreach to plugin developers to help bring official support and better stability to WaveLab and their other apps. UAD doesn’t even offer VST3 yet and many smaller developers also have avoided VST3 and still only offer VST2. It’s not just iZotope though, UAD doesn’t support WaveLab (though it seems to work very well) and I may be wrong but I think even Sonnox had to distance itself from officially supporting WaveLab recently.
