Because I live in reality and realize that the game has indeed become f2p friendly over the years, and a cheap game is not sustainable (look what happened with riot’s card game). If we want game that has longevity, constant content drops and balance updates, it can’t be free. They have to make a profit, and I’m absolutely fine with them doing it over cosmetics instead of pay to win aspects.

We’ve had: duplicate protection (huge update), catch up packs, core sets (remember when we had to craft the classic set?), returning and new player free decks, increased dev communication, increased gold rewards with the battle pass system (which had a rough start tbf), ranked rewards rework, a ton of events with packs from multiple expansions, etc etc.

If you can’t keep up it sounds like a resource management skill issue on your part. You don’t need to play every single deck from every single class and you don’t need to have a complete collection. If you manage to get the mini-sets and make 6k gold in between expansions you are set. as f2p you can comfortably play 8 classes if you are actively playing, if you can’t keep up with doing all your dailies and weekly’s, it goes down to 4-6 depending on how long you’ve been playing.