I'd say the developers being quoted are expressing a somewhat arrogant assumption they understand Steinberg's entire decision for how they moved from VST2.4 to VST3. I'm sure some of Steinberg's reasons are either private, internal development based or even financial or strategic, none of which 3rd party plugin developers may have been privy to. I'm sure the loss of the programming resource from Wizoo (who were snapped up by Digidesign) may also have had some bearing on any decisions regarding any future direction for the
VST architecture.
At the end of the day,
VST is entirely the IP of Steinberg and is licensed to 3rd party developers... they will quite rightly develop
VST as best suits their own needs... that is the nature of business.
