Not my experience, sorry. I have bought Reaper years ago and the Windows experience was flawless. In order to even get audio, I need to launch Reaper via terminal using "pw-jack reaper" otherwise I have either garbage audio or too much latency.

My VST plugins (iZotope RX 11, iZotope VEA, Arturia Keylab, Bias FX) wouldn't run via yabridge, haven't figured out why yet.

I assume it has something to do with activating licenses or whatever crap like that. The entire "pro audio" industry and their overbearing licensing and "security" schemes can go suck a duck. For real.