As above, it’s a non sense …
Even if they decide tomorrow to open their « deep processing » architecture to third party plugins, waves or other won’t work on it as it require specific programming extertise, third party teams must work together with a&h to test and debug , with different configurations … this is not an easy task !
Waves work on x86 architecture (win/macos) and note that they no more support TDM arch since v9.6 …
here the SQ is more like ARM I guess, but surely not an x86
You think they will sell more plugins (third party here) but A&H provide and devellop their own (and they’re goog for the job)
And so they are more efficient to debug them… and for the really few one who really want waves, they offer the ability to add a soundgrid waves card !!!
And only for half the price if you were on a GLD 😉
But yeah, more hassle, less portable
You have the choice ;p