AE's render order is METL -- masks, effects, transforms, layer styles. You should be able to scale up past 2K because scaling occurs after effects are rendered.
Do you have any solids that are larger than the plugin's 2K dimension limit? Or perhaps the blur effect is extending the layer bounds?
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