I was a legacy user too, they finally got rid of me I guess
The update to version 8 forces a login to the app and I could not use my own storage to sync vaults, out of the blue it just happened, I wasn't a paying customer
The workaround? Create an account, export your vault(not in the older version, the export formats are limited), and off I went to Bitwarden
Every last Friday in July it's Sysadmin Day - the day to thank all computer system administrators for their work:
For running systems and networks, backups - and nightly tinkering.