Yoshi answered this in his response....; the western audience complained about it so this is our solution. Instead of accepting that reality as a part of the western society, I see people offering the most absurd counters. "Make two year old content more engaging," "Cut out aspects of the content for future implementation." Why not stop knee jerking everything related to playing a game in order to play more of the game. And instead of complaining about a low population of people you may never run into, help them when you do run into them.

I'm fine with whatever the game developers feel is necessary to curb new people leaving in droves after their free trial is over.