I completely agree with OP and everyone who is complaining about this limit. I have never paid for apps that try to force their free users to move to the paid tier by removing free features. Never. It’s a terrible move.
Evernote did this too. I was happy with their free version for years. Then they started removing free features to compel us to pay, and guess what? I never did. I quit Evernote. And now I happily pay for not one but TWO alternative note-taking app that actually respect me. This is not gonna work with me.
As a general rule, when it comes to freemium, if the free version sucks, there is no way I am paying for the premium version. Every freemium app that I have paid for were apps that had great free versions that I used for years before moving to the paid tier. And they never removed free features.
TERRIBLE MOVE on Trakt’s part. They’re gonna lose me as a user unless they reverse this decision.