Completely with you on this one @gsonty. As with most things in the world, nothing for nothing 👍. If I have expectations of a private environment, I'd expect to pay for it. 

I'm thankful Databricks released this edition as the previous community edition was so much more restricted!

@devdbk can you provide the route you used for signing up for the free edition, please? It looked like this for me. Presumably, it's a different screen for you.

All the best,
BS