Compatibility with previous Windows versions no longer maintained

If your hardware is that old then it isn’t going to cope with future features in Cubase anyway so is a null point. Win 7 will be 10 years old when support is dropped. And if your Win 7 machine does ‘everything’ you need right now, then you’re golden as the hardware dongle doesn’t require internet access to stay ‘live’… presuming that you won’t be going online with an exploitable OS.