Play pretend Roon, instead of the large price increase, decided to stop selling lifetime subscriptions (as they have stated they will do at some point). Would you still be canceling your service? The annual subscription price did not change. There was a new release today with a bunch of new features and improvements.
Read here on why AU/VST is not practical for Roon:
It sounds like you were going to go away from Roon no matter what. Why make a big deal out of it?