My channel was just closed on my node on Alby Hub. (force close)

I'm having difficulty understanding all of this.

It said my funds on my receiving channel was too low (so the closure was done automatically after a time), but I don't understand why I have to spend another $70 or so to open another one to "receive". An open channel, especially one you buy, I would think goes both ways and has whatever the minimum requirement in it to work.

The documentation says to open another channel, but in order to clear whatever the limits are for the node (for liquidity - which I still do not fully understand) to consider it "enough", I'm looking at spending another $150 set it up, maybe more.

My funds are locked up in the current one that takes 15 days to shut down fully. So if I want to open another one, I'm looking at shelling that out.

I've read through the Alby documentation. It's not 100% clear and there are gaps in it and parts of it are not up-to-date.

Also - support says they'll be back on Monday according to the notification in Alby Hub.

I wanted this to be easy.

I didn't want to have to set up a node to send and receive zaps.

Is it possible to send and and receive zaps without having a node?

I just sent some zaps, so I can at least do that.