This is just appalling

[Neophyte]

It's like people seem to forget what they pay for with their sub.

You pay to be allowed to play. Period.

Everything else is free extra, to make it more fun for people to play and pay for it. They can just stop releasing content, they don't owe us anything beyond 3.0. But then people would probably leave after been done, so they give us as much free stuff as needed to prevent this. Also, who would by Stormblood if we would not be entertained for specific periods?
You don't pay for the content updates, nor do you pay them to develope an expansion. You just pay them to be able to connect to servers and play the current content.

So I don't see the problem in paying for extra extra things, unless it worsen the gameplay if I don't pay.