I did find this super helpful step by step blog by someone:
And that tripped my memory in that I was/am eligible for the grace periods…
So, I don’t know if this renders my paid updates pointless/useless and doesn’t allow those to even work - but I have looked thru all email and not getting this email sent. I did this same thing back last year and looked thru all folders, spam and never got one then either…
Ugh. So lucky this type of time waste rarely happens for me with Steinberg/Cubase…