Sadly due to the many challenges caused by covid 19, I was unable to travel. I offered to move dates to ANY dates in the future that the host was not booked, rather than request a refund so that she would not lose money. After replying to my messages promptly, she stopped replying until after the time had past where I get 50% of the fee back. Once that time had passed, she replied in exactly 2 minutes saying that she was not able to accommodate any requests at all. That was fine, savvy business on her part perhaps. Although, it was unnecessary as I had already told her that she could keep any monetary difference as the few hundred bucks wasn't important to me.
She then proceeded to make a rude comment to me about "controlling better the conditions of my travel". That seemed really unnecessary as all I had done was be polite, ask if I could move to ANY dates and ANY time in the future so she wouldn't lose money, said I wasn't asking for maximum refund that I was due by the AirBnb policy etc. I guess the takeaway is that If things go well, it's probably fine. If there are any challenges at all, beware of this one.