One would expect the titled offerings to be part of the standard phpfox package that can be deployed independently without relying on the phpfox services.
The reason most of the original long term customers purchased phpfox is so that they could run everything independent of the phpfox services once the original software is purchased. Phpfox now continues to force their customers to be heavily reliant on the phpfox infrastructure instead of being able to run on their own and at some point customers will likely be looking for alternatives that are most likely open source or otherwise leave completely.
I cannot say that I am surprised given the historical direction of the new phpfox team, just very disappointed there could be so much deviation from what the original customers actually want.
Just my 2 cents and as an aside, I find myself spending less and less time contributing, whether it be forum posts or bug reports. The original vision is lost and the love and excitement just isn't there anymore.