These are the kind of issues that need to be tracked. Oh, Fender, Presonus or whatever will tell its Studio One users to buy into the new DAW. Same team, etc, etc. What you are finding out now is some things simply worked in version 6 or 7, and not in version 8. Even ver 7 had hiccups with NI's S mkIII series controller. Now with the advent of a new version 8, will that suddenly work? Was the issue with NI's controller only? Doubtful. As it now works with the other major DAW's but not Studio One. And potentially not with this version 8.
There seems to be some very clear oversites to version 8. So the "same team" has this all covered? You can run with that, and I hope it works out for you, but I'd track all of this info into one tidy place. I used to do that sort of thing if it effected me, only I'm not anymore. The proof will be in how Fender track compliance, and not the many ways a user can open version 8 to the various would-be user needs. Probably a good idea is make a list and note all these issues. Just saying.