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Yeah that was my first thought too. Anything you've legitimately paid for that the company then takes away or makes extremely difficult for you to access, I think it's perfectly justified to pirate it then.
I had this experience when while I was playing Bioshock Remastered on Steam, 2K Games in their grand wisdom decided to "update" the game after 5 years of neglect. Oh, did they fix remaining bugs or other outstanding technical problems with the game? No. Of course not. They dropped a "Quality of Life Update" to force a 2K games launcher, which immediately made the game unplayable for me because I couldn't get the game to launch anymore. The irony.
So anyway, I had to pirate the game I bought and transfer my saves to finish playing.