Finally had a breather between projects and installed VEPro 7. No issues loading any vsts and my 3000 track template (I'm dumping that sucker and going for a more streamlined solution). In fact, v7 improved the one thing I wished the most: loading times. Previously, with a 48 port instance, it would take roughly 12 seconds to load a Vienna rack in Cubase 10/Win 10. Multiply that for xx instances and you see my problem. Now, I'm able to insert an instance with the same 48 midi ports in 1.72 seconds. That's huge!
And repeating what I said in page two of this thread: the new Suite Pro plugins are crazy good! So often overlooked and so awesome. I'm glad they are part of the bundle now.