I agree...and have for years. I said, when I moved from Cubase to Sonar, under X1, that Sonar's MIDI was nowhere near what
was available in Cubase. And what improvements that they have made have been unsubstantial. Sonar's MIDI handling/editing
is, as you said, primitive, by comparison. I also said, that my ideal DAW would be Sonar's interface coupled with Cubases MIDI,
and other MIDI and Audio editing features.