Idk, man. My case, in project 1 I raise the gain on a track but don't normalize signals. I split clips and bounce to clips to shorten the clips for copying.
In project 2 I paste in the clips...
Now the gain nobs do not properly represent the gain (at 0)... instead, the playback is affected as if the gain is the same as it was in project 1.
Move the gain nob, double click it... problem gone.
That's the case I was describing.