I know this goes down a different rabbit hole, and you may end up finding a new hobby in life but have you tried finding open source plugins or whatever? If you do not want to ditch Apple look for open source plug-ins, but my suggestion is ditch Apple and go Linux, it it is an intel Mac most distros will work if it is a Apple Silicon Mac there are less distros but still a few. Make sure there are alternative apps for everything you use prior to the jump though.