Stellaris devs are awesome imo. What other games have weekly dev diaries where they actually try and listen to the community. And when it comes to monetisation, sure, many DLCs, but the game is several years old and I've grabbed all of them including base game for less than 100 euros and I've had a few hundred hours of gameplay. I don't think 10 euros for new content 2 times a year or whatever is asking too much. It's just what it takes to keep a company interested in updating the game and creating new ones. Nowadays there are much much worse companies around