Kontakt 7.9.0 is a dumpster fire

I'd just like to clarify that I was able to find a download of 7.6.0 in the community forum, after uninstalling 7.9.0 and installing 7.6.0 again all the new problems that surfaced are now gone again thankfully. They only seemed to be happening on my Windows slave in VEPro7 though and not on my Mac master in Pro Tools. But still, my slave machine and VEPro Server are so integral to my system and workflow, the issues that surfaced in 7.9.0 were too significant to tolerate. I really wish NI would make a convenient way to download old versions like almost every other plug in company does because this is a recurring issue with K7 that I've personally experienced a couple times now with varying issues across updates.

Problems I had with 7.9.0 in VEPro 7 on Windows 10 22H2 were:

Way laggier than K7 already is to begin with, periodic digital artifacts/clipping sounds and would skip MIDI being sent to an instance when it was raised/selected in VEPro or switching between the tabs up top within the VEPro server. Hadn't experienced an issue specifically like this once in years until 7.9.0.

I started checking disk healths, ran digitest on my HDX cards, checked for more system updates etc. and forum/web surfed for a downgrade... essentially a few hour rabbit hole that wasted a ton of time...