yea I've purchased from a couple of others, one I was already using with J51 anyway. There are a lot of good developers out there, I just hope to receive the same forum feedback when I need help.

So help me understand, The J51 templates that were updated to J4 cannot be upgraded to J5/J6 right? I just need to know bc I have one more J51 to purchase at a discount but what's the point if I can't upgrade

Thanks for your reply :-)

I've also looked at several page and layout builders and template creators in the meantime. I've considered simply recreating the templates myself. But so far, I haven't found anything suitable.

Wow I have already started purchasing elsewhere.. but I will state what bothers me most about J51 is they continue to take our money to purchase the templates. So whose receiving the funds, if its not Ciaran. I do not want to get stuck buying templates and can't use it. Crazy. But I have received help from Joomla developers on the Joomla forum.
Yea no need to leave Joomla at all.. the creators, developers and pros have been so generous with teaching but so was Ciaran. To be honest I was so concerned about him, I did an online search in his providence of the country to see if any news popped up. I'll keep him in my thoughts and prayers..

I'm sticking with Joomla!, of course, and will take a look at the page builders.

For a new project or updating my J51 sites to J6, I'll have to find a different template... There's no need to panic about J6 yet. Support is still running. There's plenty of time to look around...
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the developer that things don't completely go under... At least we get some kind of statement...