yes, and nowadays it doesn’t seem to make much difference if you use 16 separate instances of Kontakt/EW Play/Halion etc each with one sound or 2 multitimbral versions with 16 channels. In the past multi timbral VI’s were a necessity due to low power/memory computers of the time and probably as a legacy of hardware devices. I’ve been using multiple versions of VI’s now for a while with no performance issues.
I will point out though my template isn’t as large as your guys and I tend to use key switching in EW play so will load all articulations for each instrument track.
MC