Thanks for watching the video and your interest in AliasVault 
I’m happy to answer your questions:
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No, forwarding received emails to another email address is not currently supported. By design, as soon as emails are received by AliasVault, they are immediately encrypted and only stored in encrypted form. Emails can only be decrypted by the user themselves using a key that is stored in their own encrypted vault.
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Replying to emails is not supported yet, primarily to prevent spam abuse in the cloud-hosted variant. This feature is however planned for the v1.0 roadmap, which I expect to have ready before the end of this year. But how exactly this feature is going to work requires some further research.
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Yes, you can create multiple aliases for the same website. You can do this by simply creating multiple credentials for it. The autofill in the browser extensions will automatically detect this. So for example, if you want to log in to Reddit, it will show you all Reddit accounts/aliases that you created and stored in your vault.
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Yes, you can choose your own email alias, as long as it hasn’t already been used by someone else. By default, when generating a random alias, it creates a matching email address (e.g., for the alias “Riley Meyers,” AliasVault may assign something like “rileymyers61@aliasvault.net”). The exact email structure is randomized, but you’re also free to enter your own desired email address when creating the alias.
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No, free features will not be removed. All current free features (and more are coming) will remain free. Future paid features that will be part of the AliasVault premium offering will be entirely new convenience features. Features such as connecting your own email domains to the AliasVault cloud offering, increased storage, automatic cloud backups, and possibly even a temporary mobile phone number service.
I agree with you that a premium offering should be distinctive and valuable in itself, adding real benefits for users rather than gatekeeping previously free features.
Also, as AliasVault is open-source, users are always free to self-host it, which comes without any storage limits and allows them to manage their own backups as they please. So in that sense, the future premium features will mostly focus on convenience, not necessarily essentials for security purposes.
If you have any further follow-up questions or ideas, feel free to share!