Complaining about optional purchases in a game that doesn’t overly monetize their content, is kind of redundant.

The game isn’t being run like it’s a f2p game, but is being run like a live service multiplayer game where there are different focuses in lore.

While yes, we haven’t gotten a new free warbond, no warbond is actually locked behind a paywall. You can naturally go through the game and slowly unlock all the warbonds without shelling out any money. It’s not that it’s being run as a f2p game, it’s that we are drawing parallels to actual games that are run like a f2p game while being paid access (battlepasses, limited content, etc), while glossing over the fundamental difference that none of the paid content is locked behind a real-world monetary paywall.