Stereo plugins on mono tracks (cubase)

[UEAK]Clowd

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Just bought Waves Horizon (so sweet!!)

the Waves plugins come in mono and stereo formats, but it's kind of a pain in the ass if you start off with a mono track and put mono plugins on it, but then you decide you want it to be stereo later (eg. when you want to put chorus on a vocal dbl, or etc) you gotta make a new track and re-create stereo versions of all your plugins and etc.

I know protools is strict about mono/stereo plugins on tracks but in Cubase it's a little different - I'm just wondering if maybe I'm using more processing power by just using stereo plugs 100% of the time.
 
Why not just use stereo plugs for all tracks? And naturally stereo plugins use more processing power, since they run two channels instead of one ;) But the difference in real performance is pretty much negligible.