That is my experience with either TH2 or TH3, you can have it as you like as a plugin, as you can standalone.
Since they'll be introducing a TH3 SONAR edition... is the expandable dialog only in the VST3 version?
I don't believe there is a vst3 version, I certainly don't have one and the spec's only mention vst
Windows System Compatibility TH3 is available as VST, RTAS (ProTools) and AAX64 (ProTools 10 and 11) plugins, as well as a standalone application.
32bit and 64bit are natively supported.
And TH2 always had the resizing ability and it was only vst2