Pay to Update Scrivener?

Plenty of software continues to have updates over many years without asking people to pay for it? It’s not weird to be surprised by it. And I never used the Mac version. I don’t own a Mac. How should I be expected to know how that went?

I’m not dismayed at a new version costing money, I’m dismayed that, after beta testing what I thought was an update that I would be able to use, I am instead told that it is actually a new version that I will have to pay for, which was not in any place in the beta thread, as far as I remember.

Thank you, at least, for telling me that there’s a way to export my files, despite the rudeness with which you decided to do it.

Like, Jesus Christ, dude. I at least apologized for my frustration. You’re just being an asshole on purpose. Hope you’re proud of your sick burns or whatever. You really put me in my place. Guess I’m going back to yWriter. (FWIW? I can’t afford an update right now. Even $25 isn’t in my budget with mounting medical bills during a pandemic. That doesn’t mean I don’t think the program is worth money – in better circumstances, I’d be really happy to have it – it just means I’m upset at being tricked into having to pay for it.)