I remember well what happened with WooThemes... my lifetime updates were gone because product life ended (all themes without updates = broken, useless).
I hope Automattic doesn't try to push us into monthly/yearly plans for updates and such as they usually do. Hard pass from me just because of their past actions.

I saw the acquisition announcement, read some of the reviews of people running agencies and having their accounts suspended/blocked and decided to refund here before I even redeemed it to try.

I was going to set up a new client on this but the rework and potential hit on my professionalism (if their account randomly gets shut down for what sounds like really soft spam policies) is not worth it to me. I'd rather pay the monthly fee for something else I trust given under new ownership this LTD probably won't end up being honoured in the long run anyway (let's be honest...).

I'm sure they'll say "we have no plans to stop your LTD" but 'no plans' and 'will never' are two different things and I don't really want to live in the wild wild west to find out.

Without any written guarantee that often happens when the dust settles, sure hope it's not the case here but I've been burned before. For WooThemes they (Automattic) tried to give me some months of service for plugin bla bla in return for the $100 I paid for my lifetime themes. I didn't even use their "compensation". Be better this time, Automattic.