I think that this is only the case under exceptional circumstances. Usually, it’s not a matter of switching the user to built-in Administrator, but rather of temporarily assigning administrator privileges to a regular user. If an installation were actually carried out by the built-in Administrator, all user-defined settings would also be saved in his user folder and registry hive. As a regular user, you would have no access to this data then.
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I agree with tou 100% ! Those new upgrades 14 and 15 ( worst ) are a mess. You sit at your desk to compose, open Cubase and you loose all your inspiration….. a joke for 500$….. 
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Thank you for your valuable contribution @Dominique_Sideleau .
Updates cost between 60 to 100$, not 500$. Apart from that - Cubase 14 was widely regarded as a milestone.
Of course, you think about it whatever you like.
Yep, that should be the normal procedure, as long as the currently logged on user is a member of the Administrator group (which is the default for the first account created on installation). Let UAC do what it is designed for.
Everything else is just needlessly complicated for “regular” users and leads to confusion (as shown here with the confusion between “Administrator” account and “Administrators” group), and I don’t think should be recommended here on the forum.
If someone likes their account to be unprivileged and use a dedicated Administrator account for whatever installation, they should know what they are doing anyway and are on their own. I personally don’t think that there is much security gained from that anyway, but that is just my IMHO…