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falkTX has just made the initial release of Cardinal!
The Cardinal plug-in is - to put it shortly - VCV Rack in a bottle. You have a static (and huge) collection of Rack modules to use, specials for communicating with the DAW, ability to receive MIDI CCs and have them act as CV sources inside etc...
https://kx.studio/News/?action=view&url=cardinal-2202-is-now-released
This is what I needed to be able to really use Rack in my projects - while being able to keep them contained in a DAW project.
Thank you, @falktx !