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Problem is - end users don't really care en masse about the future of the product they use. I, myself, donated triple the price of the PRO version, when this program was in its infancy, so to say, in hopes of seeing something that I can use to make something that I can call a finished product and wouldn't be ashamed to sell. This editor was extremely close to the point of hitting the right spot - it had Turing complete internal scripting language with graphics output  - a simple algorithmic language, I must note - a very important thing for those, who can't speak JavaScript, or Ruby, or Python, etc. It even had an improvised form of stable database in form of global and local variables, which could be addressed in code on call and used to program the objects behavior.

Updating the project and improving it is great - moving goalposts isn't.

I was really eager to purchase the PRO version, when I saw all new great tools which I could use - only to be disappointed when I learned that scripting language and automates were missing and there was no clear indication when they will return and in what form. Promises of its coming are not going to sweeten the hard pill to swallow. I saw many and many project like these to die out, when author was too busy rewriting stuff that was already acceptable for the users, eventually failing with achieving what was planned, but not returning old features back and abandoning the project entirely.

Change something to make it better? I'm fine with that. Stripping me of options I already had before the change will be complete, without tuning them out and forcing me to switch to older versions because now they are better versions - no, I'm not fine with that - this is just cruel and nearsighted.

I perfectly understand, that I could not see the whole picture of it, but I'm not to be blamed, since were not shown that much except of many red flags. And some of us already burned a lot by buying unfinished products hanging on promises of future completion. The future, that often never comes.