JCL wrote in this comment that there are not many users of the extra edition. So it will not affect a lot of customers.
But it also tells us that the extra edition was not very attractive. The users probably switched from free Lite-C directly to the com edition. Remember, it has no shaders, just as an example. Free engines like Ogre, Irrlicht, Unity Indie have shaders.
I believe that this feature is very important for beginners. This is, how they compared game engines in the past, this is, what magazines wrote about.

This step brings a bit more value to the existing Lite-C users, but it probably will not change the business of Conitec.

And it will not affect you, since most of you have higher licenses.