Option B is the truth for working on any AW machine.
Should you wish to "bake in" your EQ, as you have described, you could do this on the input channel, on the way in, AS you are tracking your performance
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You could do a stereo mixdown of a single track, with you first EQ settings and the pan centered, and then move the mixed info back to a track, for further work upon it. I can't see where this this would be useful though.
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I suppose you could EQ your track and send it out an AUX out > back into an input, and then you could assign and further enhance the input's EQ signal and send it to stereo bus for inclusion in the mix. It would be possible to turn the sending track's connection to the stereo bus off, but still leave it connected to the AUX out for routing to the stereo bus via an input. Again, I can think of limited circumstance where this might be worthwhile. Actually, you could do this beneficially, in order to apply a GATE to a previously recorded track, as there are GATES on the inputs, but not the tracks.
Suggestion - Rather than use the virtuals(2-8), behind your track V1, try copying your track to a different track number, so then you can easily A/B and you can also experiment with differing EQ and Panning positions. Two identical/similar track panned hard L R will sound as one track panned C, but with a bit more oomph. Also, slight time and pitch adjustment is sometimes used to "thicken". I sometimes leave the tracked vocal, EQd as i like, but quite dry of effects and panned to C. Two copies of the track are then placed elsewhere on a stereo pair, panned LR, usually EQd similarly to the fundamental track, but more heavily compressed and ramped up with some reverb, and then mixed in at lower volume for support and placement (depth).
Play around and you will find ways of utilizing your tracks.
Just remember, EQ is a specialized, frequency-related, volume (gain) adjustment. Perhaps your misconception derives from the ease at which tracks in software based platform can be rendered, which indeed "bakes in", through processing. AWs work in real time, the results of which are recorded in real time, as opposed to the rendering (quick processing) available with software. But even software EQ settings are just that - settings - they are not locked in each time you save .... > remembered upon restart? yes Locked in? no
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