I understand your frustrations, I am dealing with a few too, though I manage to get some good production work on C14.
About the zoom, I do not have your issue, all I can suggest is to consider another way to zoom : I personally never got into using the zoom tool, I prefer to select a part with the regular pointer, then press a key command assigned to “zoom to selection”.
Which is also great as you can do ctrl A to select all in the song, press the key command and see your whole project. Maybe worth a shot whilst waiting for the update !
I never use the zoom tool either. It’s the drag zoom I’m talking about.
Also “waiting for the update” is futile. The problems been present for two versions, they’re never going to address it.
I currently have to use PinchBar to effectively zoom with my trackpad on MacOS, an option I needed immediately upon upgrading. It works just fine, but I would rather see built-in zoom/gesture support as well.
You are not talking about anything.
I alreay asked you if it is the time line drag zoom that you are referrinf to. You said no. Then I asked you to describe what you mean with drag zooming and you are not able to do that.
Instead an endless discussion.
You seem to be the only one in the dark here then mate. Read the large number of other posts that share the same issue and are able to fully relate to the problem.
You could have just left it at this. I get being frustrated, but it’s not cool to speak like that to other folks in this forum. People disagree all the time, but there’s not need for all that, please.
And again you cannot describe what it actually is that you are doing.
Here is what a proper answer would look like:
I place the mouse cursor over the time line, press and hold the left mouse button and move the mouse up or down.
But you already told me that it is not the above that you are doing. And since there is no other drag-to-zoom in Cubase nobody knows what you actually are doing.
Instead you start to use foul language.
So if you understand what the problem is then what is the point to your retort? It makes no sense!
Thor, he’s just being a troll, surely you can see that!
It’s all good 
He’s not a troll, though. Sometimes it’s tough to get the points across in text. I think we can disagree with approach without resorting to insults and such.
The “click timeline and drag to zoom” is an odd one. It’s as if the system takes a moment to register the “click in timeline” and has to reach a threshold for it to figure out “oh, he’s holding it down.” On my MBP, once it registers that I’ve held it down, I can seamlessly scroll up and down without any lag. But I agree that “lag” is not cool. That’s why I just chose to use the gestures on my trackpad instead with the help of PinchBar. It doesn’t sound like you’re on a Mac so that won’t necessarily help you, but that’s how I’m getting around it on my side.
Addendum: To be clear, I didn’t post that to say “it works for me this way,” but rather to illustrate that the actual function of zoom works as desired in general, once invoked. There very well be a way for you to accomplish the same thing in a different way if waiting for the timeline-click option to register you’ve “clicked and held” is too awkward to use (which I concur with) like with a utility where you can assign an “alt + wheel” function or some such.
Some unknown zoom functionality apparently…
You have issues because you are impatient and unwilling to communicate kindly with an open mind as to how to resolve them, and even bite the hand that tries to help you.
A bit of self-introspection and deep breathing would be of use, as well as sincere apologies to the friendly people here trying to help.
Karma, man, Karma. Be good.
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And I LOVE that our forum superhelper friend Johnny keeps his legendary cool 
Johnny one day if I have a chance I’ll cook you a meal 
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Cheers Thor.
Weirdly, the only thing that counters it is hold shift, where the problem is rectified, however I don’t especially want zooming in to be a two handed affair. Thankfully I have a Shuttle Pro 2 but I don’t always want to do that, especially when editing.
As for the vanishing wave forms, no idea on what it is or how to fix it.
The most frustrating thing is having to use software that’s 3 years old when you own all the latest versions.
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I apologise for swearing at you Johnny, I’m just genuinely frustrated man!
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Frustration sometimes gets the better of us. No worries, mate. It would be nice if you could do two things: Remove the swear words from your previous post, so that the moderators will not block the entire post and kindly let me know what exactly do you do in order to do this drag zooming.
Once we established the latter I would then ask about the track count in your project and think about some other things. But first we need to know how exactly you zoom.
Is it maybe when you click-hold on the ‘ruler’ at the top and then drag down?
“Ruler” @ 1:30 here: Cubase Tip: Seven Ways to Zoom in and out of project window
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I think the swear words been removed, I can’t see it now, but sorry everyone.
Track count doesn’t factor in to this either, it behaves the same in an empty project. On 12 you click on the ruler, drag the mouse down and it instantly zooms, however on 13 & 14 there’s a delay, like it’s stuck, it responds around half a second later.
This doesn’t sound like much, however it makes editing vocals and midi an absolute nightmare, it’s impossible! The only fix is to hold the shift key whilst doing it and it responds perfectly. But this makes zooming a two handed job.
But then there’s still the problem with the vanishing wave forms when you use the zoom feature, the entire thing is just broken.
Can you try by creating a project on a fast different drive? I’m wondering if the zooming in/out could be a problem with reading the waveform files. Your CPU should be fast enough to render it out and so should your GPU so it has to be something else (unless there are some settings getting in the way).