well, yes & no & it'll be alright & doom.
also, this is the state of budget development, im not saying all games are like this, just that if you write a bunch of changes and you're product is generally ok, folks will hang around if they're entertained, but tolerance for issues has risen...mostly b/c that means we get more new stuff more often....but mostly doom & if they'd triple the price of the next expansion they may have enough cash to find a group of players to give them literally hundreds of pages of feedback, then weigh if its cost-effective to make a change based on feedback, then rake in the cash!
i'm pretty sure most folks who work at ssg are crazy rich, probably swimming in gold doubloon in their at home vault right now