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I think it's kind of weird that this trend is happening that early access games, games that are not finished, get title updates that are practically advertised as expansions would've.
I always figured early access meant early access to a game until it is a fully developed base game, then start to do "named" expansions.
It's not exclusive to this game, but it just seems like a strange development and frankly not a fan of it. Some games linger in early access way too long, but they can always use it as an excuse to get away with bad optimisation or game breaking bugs and what not.
I dunno... I kinda think it's actually more genuine? More honest? It's early access because it's not feature complete, and all the major milestones are just making it closer to completion, and generally are not charging for them. Using new features to advertise the uncompleted game makes sense, because maybe it wasn't ready for some users in the first few iterations, but after a few milestones they might feel it's worth it to jump in.
Meanwhile, a AAA game will label itself complete, then sell you things that they had planned right from the start of creating the game bit by bit, claiming they are extras. It's not like they just spur of the moment designed and made them after release. They were already working on it when they released the base game.