Hey David,
Bummed to hear you say this. I really would love to help without you needing to use any “workarounds”? We fully support and work hard to improve the free theme. We are on the support forms every day to help.
What options where not working?
What options have disappeared?
In trying to guess I thought maybe you are talking about the appearance > theme options. Which are there as long as you have the virtue/pinnacle toolkit plugin installed. I can see how if you didn’t install the plugin on activation then you could think options are missing.
We certainly hate that you have to install a plugin to have a theme options page but this was a decision made by www.ads-software.com. Themes are not allowed to use theme options pages so it was added to our plugin to give you and all other free users access to tons of great theme options.
I sure hope I can help you. Please consider using the theme support forms to reach out: https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/virtue
Kadence Themes