This is still a peer to peer forum and the developers don't come here as a matter of routine. While it's true that they post here there's no guarantees. If you want a response from them you best send an email or go to the feature and ideas forum and put in a feature request.

What was the question?

"what came over the software developers?"

@Karyn: Original Cakewalk and Pro Audio versions had a "Tempo Offset" feature that would allow you to scale the tempo(s) on playback in MIDI-only projects (i.e. using only hardware synths and MIDI metronome) by one of three user-specified factors. It wasn't compatible with audio before real-time stretching was implemented so it was removed at some point in the SONAR era (IIRC) because it was so often not useful, and was always grayed out automatically in projects with soft synths or other audio (including the audio metronome). Even after audio stretching was implemented, the feature was not brought back.