Thank you for the quick response, @LeonidS!

I think the struggle I have when building web sites/applications is I'm often trying to build things that don't exist yet - haha there is a saying "wine taste on a beer budget" - I have "developer taste on a no-code budget". Whatever software I'm using to create whatever I'm creating, I am pushing to the ABSOLUTE limits of its capabilities, because the idea for what I want to build is brand new! And I'm building something for fun, or to help people, or for my creative small business, and unfortunately, I can't afford to hire someone and so my own skills are all I have access to!

I try really hard to not waste a developer's time with what I'm concerned will be dumb questions - so if there is an option to just install software and spend a bunch of time myself trying to figure something out, that is what I prefer! But from your response, it seems like UNA had to cancel the "Pro Apps for Free" plan - I'm guessing because there were too many ways unscrupulous users could just keep getting all the apps for free by manually downloading the updates, and you couldn't lose the income stream? Of course you must do what is best for UNA!

Finally, I want to mention that when I said UNA was difficult to figure out, I did not mean that as a criticism of the software - honestly I see the difficulty as a byproduct of UNA's best feature: customizability. I'm writing documentation to explain what UNA is and how it works for our members, and that's the first thing I say about it, lol!

UNA is designed to empower people to create community-owned alternatives to any major social media platform (or something brand new that contains any combination of features found in major social media platforms.) Customizability is the name of the game, and that customizability is achieved by installing the exact correct combination of modules, and configuring them to function in the exact way you want.

We're building a site with some heavy customizations, and that's where the difficulty level comes in.