If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.
I can’t even respect people defending this, when the glorified fake hats cost orders of magnitude more than a whole-ass game. Five bucks for all of what’s new would still be exploitation built on psychological manipulation constantly steering people toward throwing more real money at content that’s already visibly on their computer. When it’s hundreds of actual dollars, for one stupid thing, how do you not see the wider problem?
This doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This is what the entire game is for. It only exists as bait on this hook.