I just discovered MATLink and it's awesome. The only problem I have is that using OpenMATLAB[] opens a MATLAB session in the background and not the interactive GUI. So the only way I have to interact with this session is through Mathematica (via MATLink) and not directly, which is what I want to do. Is there any way to link Mathematica to an interactive MATLAB instance?

(I'm on Mac Sierra, Mathematica Version 11.0.1, MATLAB R2016b)