RustySpoon#'s answer was pretty detailed and comprehensive. I find his initial comment interesting:
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In my opinion best approach is taken with Steinberg's Halion
Which has two components: Halion, which has very deep features and smaller brother Sonic - a light weight plugin (or standalone) that can do many things Halion can, without deep editing features. In theory, sure BIAB can become "all in one solution" without the need of "separate" DAW, and the Plugin could be used in the 3rd party DAW of choice with less of deep features. But a lot of work needed to make BIAB a DAW like program. No matter how close it can get to DAW workflow, it is very different in many ways, so it would require different kind of thinking in making the best of DAW like features integrated well with very specific BIAB features.
How does Steinberg's approach differ from what PG Music is doing with the main Band-in-a-Box program and the plugin? The main program has all available features and the plugin is light on features.

The main omission I can think of with RustySpoons 1 and 5 year plans is I didn't see anything about merging the Mac and Windows programs into a single cross platform program.

Musocity suggests pizza, track injector and more development resources for the plugin and RealBand.

FrankP seems to suggest dumping RealBand and develop the (Band-in-a-Box or plugin?) StylePicker.

Justanoldmuso wants PG Music to keep RealBand.

Charlie Fogle suggests using the combination of RealBand and Band-in-a-Box together to emulate a standalone multi-track recorder. I'm sure the Mac users would like to be able to have RealBand so they could agree.

It looks like it's tough to come up with imaginary 1, 5 and 10 year plans. Hard game to play.

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