Yes, PDF Expert decided to become ransomware some time back, and that also made me drop it and look for alternatives.
I’d suggest taking a look at LiquidText for annotation and notes on papers, etc.
And for a general PDF editor (fill out forms, …) I use PDFpen
Both LiquidText and PDFpen support iPad/iPhone and MacOS
I used PDFpenPro ( https://pdfpen.com/pdfpenpro/ ). I was fortunate that the scans I had of the original parts were all pretty straight, and all at about the same scale, so I was able to just select measures from one PDF and drop it into the other PDF, and it usually just worked.