Oh no!
I’m really sorry to hear that, @solmage.
I do wish you’d taken the time to post on our support forums, though – that way one of the team or another member of the community might have been able to assist you.
As I’m sure you appreciate, this is of course not the experience that most users have – with around half a million active installations, we’d certainly be inundated with similar complaints if that were the case!
That to say, I can’t help but imagine the problem is a theme conflict or, perhaps, a conflict with some other plugin you are using. If you’ve already moved on, I can only wish you luck as you continue to build out your project – but if you do wish to revisit your use of The Events Calendar please consider running through the following steps:
theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/testing-for-conflicts
These might help you to find the source of the problem. Thanks!