I just wanted to bring this up one more time as there was no satisfying answer from anyone regarding the meaning of the performance meters (I’m referring to my post). I’ve made some small live capture of the same project location played in Cubase 12:

and under Cubase 14:

No one can deny that the ASIO guard load is significantly higher under Cubase 14 plus it spikes periodically. The CPU load doesn’t seem to rise a lot compared to Cubase 12.
But what do these meter indicate now? Is this all fine, or am I reaching a limit regarding adding plugins that’s gonna cause audio dropouts if I add more? Under Cubase 12 this - at least to me - looks a lot less problematic leaving more headroom (ASIO Guard is set to high for both).
Can someone shed some light on this?