don't forget that cakewalk as a company seised to exist quite some years ago, it's a bandlab product these days, we're lucky they took the devs as well as the code base/ip, and the devs are nice enough to respond/contribute in a user forum (although that could be an employment requirement)
i wouldn't be surprised if there's an ongoing internal discussion at bandlab about the whole permanent license versus subscription only, sonar only versus the big package of promotion etc and so on, bandlab are socials oriented after all, cakewalk/sonar is not their priority as a business 🤷♀️
/goodluck