It's not as if Trimble spent time or money adding any features to the free desktop version through 2018, nothing but an insignificant cost would have prevented them from continuing a free desktop version sans any added features. Yes, the crappy, crippled, and riddled online version technically meets that criteria, barely, but it most certainly breaks the intent and spirit of the deal they agreed to.
Yeah, but part of the sales agreement stipulated that Trimble had to maintain a working, free version of Sketchup.