It lacks the VultModulesFree from VCV...
Cardinal is based on open-source modules (compatible with GPL3.0-or-later license) that are all compiled into a single static binary.
This is not possible with proprietary binaries.
There is an LV2/VST2/3/CLAP/JSFX plugin loader (Carla or Ildaeil) that can load audio plugins, but these don't sit directly in the Rack DSP graph and do not modify the Rack runtime like its modules do. You could load the VCV-Pro plugin and run it inside one of these if needed ;)