One of the features that is unavailable in Elementor Pro Essentials subscription is Popups. Now at first sight this is a pretty big deal and one might be tempted to search for a plugin to fill this gap, but hold on a minute. Think about where you actually need a popup. I can immediately think of two: the cookie notice and the mobile menu.
Now there are loads of plugins that are GDPR compliant and provide a popup cookie notice which only appears once on page load until the user accepts it. Cookie Yes is a good example and is Google-certified Consent Management Platform (CMP) and that solved my first issue.
The mobile menu is a different use case. We need the flexibility to get exactly the look and feel we want and to have it work in a similar way to the Elementor Pro popup. The solution is to use the off-canvas widget instead of a popup. The Off-canvas widget has a container that is out of view and is made visible by clicking on an icon. This has an advantage with SEO as the menu is indexed along with the rest of the page. I have also experienced problems with users not being able to view popups on older devices or browsers and the off-canvas widget fixes it.