Actually, no one in my company made any such decision. The membership was purchased and the plugins installed by the vendor who developed our site, without the direct knowledge of anyone here. Since, I have championed continuing to use Geodirectory over several other solutions, and that stance is becoming less tenable by the day.
We have a cautious update policy because we do not have in-house WordPress expertise.
I’ll push for a membership renewal… though I don’t know exactly how I’d go about doing that. Trying to log in with the account username I see in the admin interface results in an “account not found” message.