What's the deal with membership forced auto-renewal?

[Rhialto]

It's the time of the year I usually renew but seems they have made changes to the renewal options and all I can see is this:

 

 

Until last year we were able to select or unselect the auto-renew, now there is not such option, or I don't see it. Am I missing something?

 

I see no reason for removing that option, unless they look and hope for some users who could forget auto-renewal is on but they may cause frustration.

 

I put my renewal on hold until I can disable the auto-renew.

[+cerberus1]

This is discussed in full with this thread.

[Rhialto]

Thanks, I DID a search with 'auto-renewal' and I got many pages with lots of topics not related to that at all and after 3 pages I quit... search need to be fixed, dunno if it doesn't like the dash (-) or what.

[Keystone]

Closing duplicate thread. Not a "How do I....?" question.