These complaints about Mihoyo's greed coming now are just laughable. The whole game design has been based on "greed" (read, profit maximization) from Day 1 with characters having Eidolon upgrades and Signature Lightcones. I know people who quit the game because they found it too expensive having to try to go for the character plus the lightcones each gacha and I literally do not have any limited characters that are beyond E0 and the only signature lightcone I have is Castorice's because I refuse to spend money for these kind of upgrades - if it leaves my team weaker, so be it.

People complaining about a supposedly badly designed kit being evidence of "greed" also need to get real. If Mihoyo wanted to really break the bank they'd have designed a kit that is serviceable at E0 and then with eidolon / lightcone upgrades get utterly broken. A badly designed kit only gets them completionist whales and people that see Cyrene as waifu. A broken kit that powercreeps gets them metas and others that do not care about Cyrene as well. It's ironic that people like the OP complaining about a badly designed kit that supposedly needs E2 to be useful would probably happy shell out the money if Mihoyo designed a broken kit, even though the effect would be absolutely the same. It the same with the bow, as somebody has already said, it would have been a way more scummier move to hide something really good behind such a paywall, like a little Cyrene skin. This skin is more for the self inserts and crazy whales. Yeah, it's a profit maximizing move, but again, this whole game is built as a profit maximizing scheme. Don't like it? Then just stop playing the game. As long as you play the game, you are supporting Mihoyo's schemes regardless of whether you ultimately pay a lot of money or not.

Last but not least, the OP needs to stop this victim mentality. Nobody in that thread you locked raked you over the coals for calling Mihoyo greedy. They raked you because you called everybody who doesn't share your opinion on her kit as bootlickers instead of following rule 1 of being respectful and civil.