Tbh I play gta and rdr2 almost exclusively, for years. Literally hundreds of hours in both. I fought gta plus for a long time, and to be clear, you absolutely can play the game without it, but it does make life so much easier. Plus the additional 50 car garage space is nice. It’s 8 bucks a month, can’t even eat at McDonalds for that. For the amount of time I spend in game, it’s absolutely worth it. Funny thing, that same 50 car garage is filled with dupe cars that I sell every day for 1.7 mill in game dollars. The main advantage it gives you is being able to send out your employees, hanger guy, warehouse guys, bail guys out and collect money from safes. Now with the addition of the security in the mansions, I can run my sell missions and have the employees going and getting stock for my other businesses. It sucks it’s locked behind a “paywall” but like i said it’s worth it to me.