did Garmin Express for Windows remove support for AntStick at some point?

I have an AntStick and figured it would be nice to use Express without having to plug in the watch to USB sometimes

Except my Express doesn't do anything with the AntStick

Now I have the ancient Garmin program before Express called "Garmin ANT Agent" 

ANT Agent DOES see the AntStick, it changes when the dongle is plugged in or removed

But Express does nothing, tried adding it as a device, nothing detected

Just to complicate things this is Windows 7 with that final version 7.20.3.0

But they had to have support at some point before that for years, no? 

ANT Agent stopped around 2015 I think, that's a long decade between it and Express with Windows 7

I am really disappointed Garmin has moved everything now to their mobile app only,

millions of people still use desktop machines, especially with vision problems needing large screens