Are you talking about Panic end-of-lifting a product but releasing a final free build?

I’m curious about which aspect you see as burning.

I bought it years before they EOL’d it and bugs were never fixed.

Same with Coda. I used it maybe four times, forget the price I paid but let’s say $40; probably came out to $10 per use. It was nice. I was happy with the purchase, or thought I was until they pulled the rug out. I thought it would have long term value. Planned to use it much more in the coming years when I get into some web projects. And now it’s orphaned. Why did they ask for my money if they were going to do that?

Coda 2 was released in 2012. Nova came out in 2020. Is eight years of free updates not “long term value”?

Presumably they thought you wanted to use it as it was and when you bought it.

Coda still works, so what's the issue?