First off, Cakewalk isn't Cakewalk anymore, it's Roland. A huge multinational company (like Yamaha acquiring Steinberg )that has acquired and now controls the future of Sonar. Secondly, the influential forum members that had an active part in bringing the concerns of the user base to each new product release are now gone or bumped upstairs.
The concerns of Roland are vastly different than the concerns of a small Boston based company that cares only for its own best interest. Cakewalk is but a tiny part of the huge umbrella that is now Roland. And like any huge corporation, the overall bottom line is the big picture here, not the incremental improvement of one of their investment arms.
It dosn't make financial sense to put anymore more money into X2 unless there is a huge recall of the product due to some kind of defect...(i.e. Car Company Air Bag defect, ect ) not bugs. Its why Microsoft chose not to release another Service Pack for Win7 and instead put all the money into Win8. New Product Line=More Return on investment.
I'm afraid the days of a responsive, forum friendly company are long over now and the days of more 'Avid' like behavior are on the horizon. This is also why companies like Presonus are creating such a huge ground swell about their products and hardware. They are still that responsive, user based oriented company that Twelve Tone ( Cakewalk ) started out to be. It may be unfortunate, but its the future.