Um no, theres lots of options. Cobb has done us all a favor by dismantling the monolith by themselves with the use of bizarre messaging akin to some major brands that i cnat be bothered to mention. Cough annie are you ok weiser bush. Coguh cough.
Look into:
1. OS (open source)
2. Tuners that have not updated their scam tuner product
3. Standalone, but depends on if you still need emissions obd output, could get a little complicated here.
Lots of options, you purchased the car, you can do what you want with it.
Good for the enviro socials.