Thanks for the quick and helpful reply. As a former Mac programmer and web developer, I certainly do understand the difficulty of creating a shortcode structure for such a complex plugin. So I don’t expect it any time soon. But it should be considered.
I’m using the Salient theme by ThemeNectar for six of the 116 websites I’ve built, because it’s one of my favorite themes overall. Several of those sites use the Events Calendar and two of them use the Pro version, which is why this is getting so frustrating. I’ve talked to ThemeNectar and they do have great support but they didn’t really offer much of a response.
But I’ve encountered pretty much the same issue with other themes and that’s why I posted about it.