You can't even see the date in the menu bar without paying. Those who don't pay see a menu item that has no date. That was egregious. However, previous versions also had the "travel time" feature that's already an macOS Calendar.app feature.
Finding out that macOS/iOS Calendar is perfectly fine for me.
I wouldn't recommend it anymore either because of the subscription model, but I don't see any functionality missing compared to the previous version.
The only drawback for me is that the UI takes more space.