NAEA appears to have done something similar. This year, for the first time, they offered an annual pass that includes various online offerings, but not the multi-course certificates that they have started to offer in the last year or two. Until the start of this year, we got a journal six times a year, with either 2 or 4 CE hours in each issue. March was the last bi-monthly issue. We are now moving to a quarterly journal. No word yet on how many CE hours in each one, but I will be surprised if the amount in each issue increases. So, because the EA Journal was the source of much of the CE hours that qualify for the annual pass, the value of the pass will, I expect, decline significantly. That is bad business.
In any case, I like to rotate my CE providers. I do still go to NCPE for my annual update but I don't get too cosy with just one provider for the rest of it.