However, this is obviously just a flaw in the logic of the Advanced Installer interface: when you select "Advanced CAB layout," a tab with the same name appears, which has a hidden option, which becomes available when you click on the item "Cab1.c" located on the panel "Volumes and CABs": "Volumes" ▶ "Disk1" ▶ "Cab1.c" (the last two items are available only if the project already contains some files). After highlighting "Cab1.c," the Advanced Installer interface completely hangs (in the case of our project containing more than 170000 files) for more than 10 minutes (!!!), and then the option with the non-obvious name "Include CAB into the MSI database" becomes available (see the screenshot below). This option overrides all the logic of the parent options, and causes Advanced Installer to embed all the generated CAB files in the MSI installer!
Thus, the conclusion: at present, Advanced Installer hides from the user a part of its functionality, which is of great value. I suggest redesigning the logic of CAB archive configuration options in order to make it more consistent and to eliminate the interface hangings.