I wish every calc forum put a banner at the top warning users to not upgrade if they still want to use certain powerful programs, but then maybe Adblock would wrongly block such banner, thinking it's an ad. Basically anyone who get their Nspire don't visit calc forums right away or might be tricked by TI to upgrade. >.<
That said, if you need something to read smaller text on your Nspire, then you could always use mViewer GX, though, since you don't need Ndless for it and only Lua is needed.