Your complaint seems to be that a new player seven expansions in should have to trudge through content they don't care about because you did. Is that about right?
Way off mark. I was aiming for if you buy a new game, do you want to then spend $X amount go right to the end boss and finish the game, or do you want to play through the story, enjoy it and immerse yourself in the story and then get to the end boss? If i could get a game with 3/4 years of content for $50/60 I'd pay that to play it. Sure it's going to cost me a little a month, but it's nothing I wouldn't spend on a indie game, or something on sale on steam that would probably last a day or two, possibly a week, I get a month for that.