It is pretty bad. I ‘lose’ automation each time I do the following: I have an Instrument (or other) track that I want to render (onto another track, mostly to have a ‘copy’ of the waveform in case I lose settings in the instrument etc); I always first open the Volume automation track and ‘write’ the actual volume of the track by setting one automation point (1 click) at the very end of the track. This way I can then unable automation, CTRL+click on the fader (sets it to 0dB) and then ‘Render with current settings’, then turn back on automation to read the original level (yes I want the fader on 0dB on ‘render export’). Only that since Cubase 13 it will not read any Volume setting after that. It’s not cool, very frustrating.