Yeah well, it's been 4 months since the last reply and this thread was being buried so I thought it was proper to bring this up again with some direct questions.
Recursive search is a key feature in some workflows, as I said, for me it renders my particular setup almost worthless.
I bought a Pro license when I used the trial version and recursive search was working quite fine, I can imagine others may have done the same.
It's at least unusual to remove SW functionalities apparently without a reason or explanation.
Finally, I felt it's worth to insist since it might even be just a bug or an oversight, idk?