In reply to David.

Hi David, these are great questions. I’ll reply as actionably as I can now, but let’s consider this an on-going conversation. There’s lots of ways to reach me and the rest of the SolidWP team.

Will our clients see an alarming change?
No, as you mentioned, particularly for iThemes Security Pro, the updates will be mostly cosmetic. You can of course leverage our User Groups features to customize what your clients see on the Dashboard, and we always suggest testing updates like this in a local or staging environment first.
Regarding Admin notices
We do not plan or intend to be intrusive in the admin. There will be intuitive and non-intrusive ctas particularly in the free product, but we avoid intrusive popups in our products.
Regarding lifetime licenses
We plan to continue to support all our iThemes customers and respect the licensing that they’ve already had to date.
RE the town hall
Sorry you can’t make it to this one, we will be offering more as we get closer to the full website and product launch. We want customers like you to be as informed and equipped as possible ahead of the launch.

Thanks David!