Given the keyword's focus on 10.0-x64 , you are likely a user who has not upgraded to Waves Update Plan (WUP) in years. Is this bad?
Rather than each individual plugin being its own standalone file (which would clutter your computer with hundreds of duplicates), Waves uses a "Shell" technology The Gateway WaveShell1-VST3 10.0-x64.vst3 file acts as a single software gateway or "wrapper". The Container vst plugin waveshell1-vst3 10.0-x64 -vst3-