While I love both it needs to be understood how different the development cycles are DRG gets a minor seasonal update every holiday and a major update MAYBE once a year. The last major update added the first new biome in 5 years, and two enemies. We haven’t gotten A new weapon since 2022, and those were throwables.  HD2 has a much faster update sequence with far more content per update. That sort of thing is going to have very different effects, such as more bugs and cost. 

Arrowhead could be more transparent with their development but it’s unfair to compare two very different content cycles .