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I've used EyeTV since the days of EyeTV 2. When EyeTV 3 was released, the software license cost around £80. The best way to make the upgrade worthwhile was to buy a new low-cost tuner from Elgato, the then owners. That bought a tuner plus the software for about £90. Not a problem. Now that EyeTV 4 has been released, their very low initial asking price is much more reasonable, but you can still make a saving by buying some hardware from Geniatech, which might still have EyeTV 3 included, but which will allow you to obtain EyeTV 4 for no additional cost. And yes; a new major iteration of any software usually means that the application has been re-written in a substantial way. That requires work. Workers require a salary. Customers pay that salary. Why do you have a problem with that? I doubt that you would be very happy if you worked for someone and they threatened to fire you if you wanted paying. Be sensible and pay for what you are using.

Odd that you expect that a jump from a major version to another, and to 64-bit architecture, comes free. In my many years of using Mac software, this is rarely the case.