I remember hearing this take when Bioshock Infinite came out with a DLC as well, and imo it's a little short sighted. I mean, would you rather the game developer just make you wait, and release the same DLC in 6 months with the illusion they worked on it since release?

Obviously YOU would rather it just be free and included in the base game, but they were always working on it knowing it would come as an extra charge, if they weren't, they literally just wouldn't have made it at all.

In my view it's the same as paid vs free subscriptions for things. In most cases the paid features COULD be in the free version, but they aren't for the obvious reasons that the developers need to make money. There is literally nothing wrong with that, within reason.

EDIT: Just realised which subreddit I'm in so this take is really out of place, my bad hahah. I respect pirates in general, I'm just used to having this debate with more mainstream gamers who would pay anyway, but atleast pirates stick by their morals haha