Hi Tim
I am sorry that you feel this way. The Events Calendar and all our other plugins provide a great value to our users, and we are committed to providing the best service and ongoing development. With your annual renewal, you will have access to our help desk as well with a typical 24-48hr weekday response time.
You might find https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-tec-event/ to meet your needs. It isn’t truly a recurring event, but this 3rd party plugin will duplicate one event many times. It still will involve some manual work on your end to create each repeated event, but all the content will be duplicated.
Please let us know if I can assist you further. I do hope you find a solution for your needs.
Thanks
Courtney 🙂