I used my personal email to create an Apple Developer account. Then, when I stopped paying for that account - I was unable to use the free level Apple Developer

I used my personal email to create an Apple Developer account. Then, when I stopped paying for that account - I was unable to use the free level Apple Developer services. So now, I would have to setup a whole other Apple ID and configure that in XCode, Expo, etc. in order to just install a program on my own device. I contacted Apple about this a few times but nobody I was able to get in contact with was able to help me and I don't even think they understood the issue to begin with.