What are you paying a subscription for?

[TheDecay]

This is a misconception that you pay your subscription for the patch content. The patch content is incluced with the base game and expansions. When you buy the Endwalker expansion all future patches of that expansion are already included in the price of the expansion.

You don't had to pay a sub while a patch released to get access to the content of that patch later on.

So the literal answer to "What are you paying a subscription for?" is:

You pay to get access to the game. Everything else you have to pay extra for. (And without paying the sub you will lose access to that extra stuff which you have already payed for)

This is grade A gaslighting