I've been doing lots of updates to my template lately.
During one of those changes to the bundles, I accidentally set it up in such a way that, in any chunk, the hardware synths' Ins monitor was active and that was signal being sent to the Master (so anything I've bounced for the last couple of weeks has been like this; nothing critical, luckily, but it still has me stumped). Worse, the bundles were duplicated 5-6 times in such a way that, for all practical purposes, I've been working at an equivalent of 12 bits due to the whoping -70ish dBFS of pure glorious noise from the hardware synths duplicated ins. I couldn't believe it when I noticed this tiny little detail courtesy of some left-over buried test tracks...
Worse, I discovered this by mere accident, since one of Trim's meters in the master fader refused to go to minus infinity when clicking on the meter to reset it. The range was set high enough to not see any signal below -60 dbFS or so, and I always monitor quite low, so I never heard it...
This is when you make tests in your template and forget to set it back or fail to incorporate necessary changes in a part of it



Maybe I should stay like this, though? I raised the monitoring levels to hear it and it kinda adds a nice vintage colour (to my pristine 32bFP/48KHz stems and mix recorded from dozens of GBs worth of 24/48 audio tracks to get said stems)
