I use substance painter and I need it to work. I don’t want to spend hours messing around trying to make it work and jumping through hoops.
Wine for DCC is great if you enjoy tinkering with pipelines rather than using them, but impractical for people who are trying to reliably get work done.
This seems like the cost of a game that they are unable to charge op for. Do you feel like they are not entitled to the money owed?
They could have just removed the game from the account, at least this way op is alerted of the issue and given a chance to correct it without an interruption to his entertainment.
Try Deep Rock Galactic! It is neither a full time job or a money sink. Any purchases are purely cosmetic, seasons are entirely free and there are regular updates.