Let me voice my dismay at this. I've been a top contributor and am an enterprise customer. Sure, we're only 32 SC, but even the smallest customer has made an investment in 3CX. I get that your weekend warrior using a free edition doesn't need to have a voice. But stopping your paying customers? C'mon.
My biggest concern is that many of the updates are to features tacked on to the phone system, while the basics of day-to-day operational features continue to be lacking (like you can't change to a vacation greeting from your phone?!?!) And the Enterprise features are nice, but could use some serious love given the premium we're paying.
If you're not budging on this, perhaps allowing some sort of vetting process would be nice? Like "If you've been a top contributor" or "Here's the path to get allowed". Something.