People not willing to pay and justifying it with the reasons OP posted will find something else to complain about.
There is enough upcoming content to satisfy people currently playing and make them continue to do so until 2.0, with the promise of those events being "one time only" being an additional incentive. People who play(ed) on and off and didn't really level nor have any contacts ingame (me, for example) might not want to pay though. Especially since most people only play within their LS.

The roadmap sounds promising and all, but so did the initial launch. They also still didn't fix the alt-tab crash issue and I somehow highly doubt it will be fixed with 2.0 or any patch before that.