Same thing happened to me, don’t know how it exactly works. Maybe you need at least 1 person from our server to have interacted with this community before we pull updates?

As long as these don’t cost a kidney, it’s reasonable.

Do you have to change the whole device if your prescription changes? Or just the (guessing price) $1500 usd lenses?

This is probably an attempt to have people resign out of “their own will”, so Google won’t have to offer severance packages.