Excellent news about it being resolved, thank you for getting back!
We have repeatedly explored the idea of email support. I appreciate the feedback about this and will pass it along. To be up front though I doubt they will ever switch or offer an email alternative. Forums are such a standard support tool in the WordPress community, both for WordPress.org and premium plugins. For the same reasons most other plugin authors use them we do too. One thing we are definitely going to do though is add email replies, so that you can continue a support exchange like this one without ever having to leave your inbox.
Thanks again!
– Brook