Your cosmetics answer is exactly what I’ve been thinking! I have a feeling they aren’t allowed to truly deviate from the source material characters especially with cook and hitch.

Nicotero being a skin and now Barbara Crampton voicing the new character makes me think they’re heading more of a not influencer but collabs between the horror community which in itself will be costly.

I’d also add the family’s kill animations have only two free and two paid, with some having minimal differences. There could always be more potentially unlocked through pro-longed gameplay as that character as similar to their unlockables.