I would say Cubase 12 is anything but stable. I’ve been using Cubase since before it was even called Cubase. I had virtually no problems at all until I upgraded to 12 when it came out. Even after applying all of the updates I constantly get crashes and it virtually always hangs on exit and I have to force quit. I have never once been able to get through a single session in Cubase 12 without some sort of issue. I’m angry that I paid for an upgrade that doesn’t work. Ended up going back to 11. I’ve considered switching DAWs altogether because of the instability of 12 and the fact that I’ve lost months of production time. (Kinda hard to feel creative when you’re constantly having to figure out what the issue is.) In my opinion, 12 was when they eliminated the dongle and suddenly the forums were filled with issues. If it were my product I would try reinstating the dongle on a focus group and see what happens. Can’t hurt to test. Also can’t hurt for them to pay more attention to the forums and take note of the issues people are actually having. They could also use more people in the forums trying to solve customer issues instead of having one guy who gets to pick and choose who he will help.