First of all, thank you very much for your answer. I also agree that development costs money and that is why a Pro extension of this plugin is offered. This is certainly suitable for everyone who (want) to use this plugin commercially and also needs substantial things (import/export).
The free plugin is very good, especially when it comes to user published events in conjunction with BuddyPress. Fairness also means that money has to be spent on similar plugins and its extensions for this functionality. Nevertheless, it is annoying and frustrating to keep encountering “seemingly” familiar problems.
I have now used the questions to examine the one and the other in more detail. In fact, two of the four reported ‘bugs’ have been resolved. The first point is clearly my fault, the second has now been corrected and the third may be irrelevant and the fourth, with the proposed change, will be eliminated in the next update.
In this respect, I apologize for incorrect criticism as well as the somewhat harsh tone overall.
Maybe still interesting for some people:
(1) ‘Missing’ grid format – wrong shortcode
Did use this shortcode, with a additional snippet I somehow got from this forum.
[events_grid long_events="1" location="10" scope="all"]
Forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/new-shortcode-events_grid/
This shortcode is (currently) correct:
[events_list view="grid" ...]
Forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/second-page-with-grid-layout/
(2) Booking buttons that don’t work for cancellations – javascript
Working since 6.4.7.1 (Error messages in with 6.4.6.4 and 6.4.7)
/…/events-manager/includes/js/events-manager.js
Forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/booking-cancellation-causes-error/
(3) Typo SQL Error – maybe deprecated query but still annoying and reported long time ago
LINE: 393 "SEELCT"
/…/events-manager/classes/em-bookings.php
Forum: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/overall-good-plugin-but-response-to-obvious-code-error-for-4-months/
(4) BuddyPress User published Events – Missing URL Domain when trying to edit a published event
/…/events-manager/buddypress/bp-em-core.php
This error was introduced with 6.4.7. Solved by uncommenting line 60 in the above file.