Can i respectfully ask, that those who (appear) to be arguing for the sake of arguing please stop?!
As has been pointed out, there will be reasons for the decision as to why a update is forced. We as customers may not (and likely cant) know why.
I understand that a working version (for you) may not not work, and that does suck, and I get it. But to harp on about a point without knowing the reasoning/backstory is just tiresome.
You need to understand that there will be many parts to an application like AnyStream, everything needs to be in sync/lined up to work...lets leave it to the dev team to make the decisions on THEIR product. The Redfox team are, after all, known for what they do and great at it.