No one told you that you were complaining about anything.
If the programmer no longer responds to any app, in that system or other then probably has a problem… cheap as they are, we can expect much endurance but it can be badly handled and gone… i myself never had one of those “death in hand.”
Do you have soldering skills or a friend than can take the IC out, its easier to program outside the pcb
PS: I’m pass 50 and many others here pass 70’s…time is a manner of perspective… we know that will eventually run out, you won’t get help faster or better for being an “aged one”, understood?
All the best sir…and im out of here. Time…