Understanding changes to staff accounts in Basic Plan?

I have become aware of the new change where you can no longer have staff permissions with the Basic plan, but what does that mean for existing Basic plan stores? I have clients where I am added as a staff member - will I be kicked off or is this just for new stores?

OMG when did this happen ? They should include at least one staff account in the basic plan…
BTW in your case you should create a shopify partner account and send all those stores a collaborative access request. As far as I know there is no restriction on how many collaborators you can add.

this is nothing other than a money-making grab. There is absolutely no added benefit to the Shopify plan for $79 apart from the staff accounts. I think at some point they got savvy to the fact that people can get by with two staff accounts so they though, hey, how can we maximize our profits and force people to upgrade? “Remove staff accounts”

Thank you Shopify for putting profits over customer satisfaction