Editing Audio in PP SUCKS

Does anyone else have an absolutely abysmal experience using PP to edit audio? For context, I'm primarily an Audio Engineer, however, I got certified as an ACA in PP; so I know how to work with video and I'm very familiar with the products (have been using them 8+ years).

Anyway, basically I'm working with my livestream footage (1080p 60FPS, 6 Audio Tracks 46khz/320 bitrate .mov files), and they're usually anywhere from 2.5-5+ hours. I have a terrible time working with 3rd party VSTs. Can't have realtime playback, constant clicks and pops, plugin response is slow and terrible (using the controls), the lack of ability to save Audio Track Presets, the terrible keyframing system, inability to easily reorder audio tracks, the names of the tracks not appearing on the timeline unless you zoom in a certain amount, etc.

My edits are simple, an intro, an outro, some occasional Essential Graphics (really grateful for this!, and sped up sections have an adjustment layer with a colorgrade and chromatic abeeration effect. I use proxies, work at 1/4 resolution, clean my cache after every project, my audio buffer settings are set to max and are using the driver of my audio interface, I have CUDA enabled and use it for exporting through ME.

My Setup:

Intel i7-9700K 3.6ghz

32gb RAM

Nvidia 1080Ti

Am I doing something completely wrong? I would figure with this setup, I shouldn't be having as many issues as I am. 

The only thing I absolutely refuse to do is use Audition.