Capture One appears to be pushing more customers to take out an expensive subscription: after the company made the purchase version of Capture One Pro more expensive and less attractive, the free express version is being summarily discontinued, thus locking out existing users.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Capture-One-discontinues-Express-locks-existing-users-out-of-their-photo-library.782620.0.html
Personally I hope users migrate to software from another company.
That is definitely not the way users should be treated.