There’s certainly some truth to that.
But it’s important to consider how you want to use VCV in your DAW and finding out which DAW will best support that because they are not all the same. Speaking to other users about that can help.
DAWs started out as sequencers - you’d use a sequencer on a computer to sequence hardware synths and drum machines. Then synth and effect plugins came along as did ‘hard disk recording’ so you now sequenced plugins and your sequencer also now had to be able to record and deal with audio - thus the DAW was born.
The core job of most DAWs has always been sequencing and that’s what most are built around. Now however, we have Rack as a VST, and while there is certainly some good milage in using your DAW to sequence synths in Rack, or syncing Rack to your DAW and using it essentially as a standalone instrument inside it, perhaps the most killer feature of all is the reversal of the traditional paradigm where the Rack plugin now becomes the main sequencer and modulator of other plugins and hardware rather than the DAW - and the DAW becomes more like a control centre and router of signals.
The question then becomes, which DAW is best for this way of working? And the differences are really quite significant. Most DAWs are just not built for using plugins to sequence other plugins and hardware - because it’s basically the opposite of what they started out doing.
It’s for this reason that i would recommend Bitwig - not because I want to validate my choice - but because it really does let you work without limits in this manner - with Rack as your main sequencer. You can have 16 different sequencers in one Rack instance in Bitwig and use them to sequence 16 other tracks. You can theoretically have 2,048 modulation signals coming out of one instance of Rack (16 x 128 midi CCs) and use them to modulate pretty much anything else. And it’s really straight forward to do - no jumping through hoops.
Compare this to Ableton Live which is a great DAW in many ways, and brilliant when it comes to live performance, but it is REALLY not built for sequencing with plugins. All midi coming out of plugins is merged to one channel and you can’t modulate Live instruments using CCs coming from other tracks. So in Live you get just one sequencer per Rack instance and you kind of have to hack the Pitch bend and Mod wheel channels to get any modulation of Live’s instruments out of it at all.