I'm not doing serious scripting, but that scripting allowed a clever way for open source products to work with Davinci, without them being wholly tied to the Davinci Way of Doing Things(tm), and that allows the app to work standalone, as well as with Davinci's competitors.

It doesn't cost Davinci any more dev time to keep it enabled in the free version as the scripting engine is used throughout the app.

And weird to drop support in an odd point release. Usually when features are Studio-only, you'll get a prompt "hey you've reached the limit of the free abilities". Trying already installed scripts after upgrading just failed silently, which was a pain in my butt to debug.