Very bad!!!
Yes, they should have learned from that.
And yet they advertise it as an exciting new developmnet for us.
Which makes it worse than the eLicenser.
My answer is: a moron (completely untethered to the world of modern music making).
If this means that I lose the ability to use my current version of Cubase (ver 11) in perpetuity (b/c I will never upgrade again!), then it becomes a Melville-esque scenario: