So… Did you find a better product or are you willing to build one with everything you say for what you ask, from scratch, to compete with it? Let us know because we might become your customers. 
People love to complain.
I have personal difficulties and deal with health issues, amongst other things.
But, otherwise, if I were going to offer what you want, it would surely not be cheap.
This is not supposed to be a good “professional grade” product. It’s just something good enough when you run a small community.
I don’t think it’s fair to treat a single developer that’s clearly struggling as if he were a massive evil corporation enshitifying things.
I am also a user. I also wish for something better. I chose this product because it’s an “indie” solution that might lack here and there but that won’t rip me off for money or data.
As I mentioned, let’s give him some time. If he actually abandons the project, then we can think about the best next step.
People complain about subscriptions but without some sort of revenue isn’t sustainable. You get thousands of websites using your product with zero income, then an odd new customer per week or not even that.
You use this plugin because you likely also collect recurring subscriptions as you are aware you’d not be able to even fund your hosting expenses, let alone producing new content.
I am not defending a hefty subscription but things like the unlimited websites for a single license have to go. The least we can do is to pay per additional domain.
I didn’t check the forum stats yet (not sure if they’re visible to me, I’ll take a look later) but if we have a thousand users here paying at least 2 euros per month, on average, he’d get at least 1500 after fees that could at least mean he’d be able to spend a few hours per week working on very basic security updates, nothing else.
If we expect more, whatever new he comes up with should require extra.
For comparison, OneDrive broke shared folders almost an entire year ago. There’s thousands of complaints on an single thread. They’re a MASSIVE corporation and they’re ignoring the problem because they intentionally want to push people to upgrade to pay 2 ~ 5 times to get more storage per account by using dark patterns.
Yes, I get you’re frustrated when you see what you don’t understand (the security issues, for example, I assume you don’t understand because you didn’t come with a piece of code ot fix it even though it’s not that complex, did you?) but considering that I am here for more than half of a decade I can tell you that @clavaque doesn’t just dismiss us out of choice. I have no idea what is happening but we need to be more patient and understand the context. I have autism but I am not this tone deaf.
If you can have patience, that’s nice. Otherwise, just find a better solution and, if you want, share it with us.
We have a few users here donating time and energy trying to be helpful with ZERO compensation.
I had to register an emergency domain because everything went poof overnight for a few days, then thankfully came back.
I will do what I can when able, to help. There’s pieces of code that might be useful for the vulnerability issue, I am in a conversation with a third party and also @Gerard, via email.
I care about it, but I also feel overwhelmed. I also want to do everything I can to respect @clavaque’s ownership of the plugin and I didn’t learn php. I just copy pieces of code here and there, make adjustments using logical deduction etc.
I really hope he comes around. One thing I believe is that we need to have some sort of communication channel. Even if he comes here only 3 times per week or something. I am helping as a moderator here and even I can’t reach him, otherwise I’d surely have done that.
I am open to ideas, suggestions, thoughts. Sorry for anything.
