In deed if you have an OTC without Support & Upgrade, you cannot download the latest version. You would need to buy it.
In my opinion the pattern you see is related to your flight height.
This bug was reported for the Mavic 2 Pro:
And it has been solved in 4.4.9.
However it does not seem to affect your project.
I would expected that flying lower you should be able to get proper results and avoid this pattern.
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