I think you take that case too serious, too grievous, too stern.
Is there a promise of free plugins, free functions, free options forever? Even the WordPress core authors remove functions from the core and backend like the (no more available, only pluggable) “Links” manager for blogrolls and in the current version 4.2.x the title attribut from links.
Do you think you are entitled to or have the right to get free functions forever by everybody? Or do you think the author must deliver desired function for nothing? No author needs to do that, and nobody, even not you, can demand or claim a free function.
I have to contradict DareDevil: There are plugin authors who didn’t just remove single functions – no, they removed their plugins completely from the repository to make them premium. Nobody likes that step, but for the authors it is a necessary step to keep the plugin and its development at high quality for many users.
And I did not remove the plugin completely. No, I compromise on only reducing the plugin, and I removed only functions which do not store settings – the “first content image” function is removed from the bulk edit section, but is kept in the Preset section, because it would really upset every user if a stored Preset rule would have been removed.
I can understand that you are upset with my choice. But I did not take money or other things away from you. Bear that in mind. I give a usefule tool free to you. You have the responsibility to respect changes on free things.
