IT’S NOT WHAT I EXPECTED

OK, so I’m a GIS newbie. But good grief, how can you call something free if a login is required to make it work?!
ESRI as usual is complex and unhelpful in everything it does. Or maybe I missed something. A star rating here doesn’t really apply; therefore I chose an ‘neutral’ 3 stars.

as6699 about Explorer for ArcGIS