Maybe it was one of the (new) assistant editors who pushed the button. IDK. Definitely does not help that the founding editor is an academic and I’m still zero for (cough) many subbing journals like that. I can’t make up my mind how I want to handle the situation. Arguably what I have been paying for was for the journal to exist, and, well, it does and is thriving. But what this episode has clarified for me is that I really want to spend my patronage budget on things that bring me community in return.