Aurora HDR

In 2021, it launched Luminar Neo, ditching Luminar and Luminar AI, and made it so its current customers would have to purchase the new standalone programs rather than updating the ones that they paid for.

The company also did the same when they transitioned from Aurora HDR to Luminar.

So the moral

of the story here is that some software companies go the ripping the bandaid method, hoping for the best while others provide paths that are a lot less jarring for their users.