Mac Mojave
Just before event: opened Evernote for first time in probably a year (almost exactly). Hadn't sync'd, but no changes in any devices.
I agree I'm still getting a bargain, financially, and the product is a sound value. The interface for me (MacOS, not logged in for a year, Basic subscription, and "upgrade or unsync" text) wasn't clear (explained in prior post from my hopefully objective perspective). I thought my data had been dumped. I agree, logically, that it's unlikely - Evernote wouldn't have the great rep it does if it dumped people's data - but from my experience I thought I'd gone through some weird atypical sequence of events that did delete my data locally, on the only sync'd machine still in use.
Sigh..