it does in my experience, 3 or 4 seconds. i once removed the whitelist, or something else. i don’t remember. i can be more specific…
i did it on my previous installation (on win 7) now, i don’t care… but cubase starts fast enough for me. 10 or 12 seconds? maybe more. it could be faster, and i should rescan the plugins, it is likely that they won’t be blacklisted again.