I think it's definitely reasonable to expect that the app will continue to improve and there is no lifetime charge that would cover that.

The time is now to encourage and support development of the things you like and that also includes your favorite Lemmy instance itself.

I did use a bot..

I did but "all" is useless without it and having to use a separate website to discover communities just doesn't make sense.

I think at some point I will figure something out.