As I stated in my last paragraph CA is worse by adding a 2 hour campaign and a very one dimensional faction and charging $19.99. They did that one or two more times after that. I threw up my arms and am done with purchasing their games after they repeatedly pull that crap.
I'm not familiar with that one, but I am reminded of the likes of Return to Ostagar from Dragon Age: not quite that expensive, but probably not quite that much content either. I remember after the half-hour campaign just thinking "I actually
paid for this?" But I guess EA tends to lead the way when it comes to the unacceptable face of monetising. I would be very surprised if Larian went anywhere near that sort of thing! And CDPR set a much better example.
We'll see. I just hope that Bethesda won't try to bait you with shoe-DLCs. Could you resist?

Let's just hope they don't spot my weakness!

Fortunately for the time being at least I can do my own, and seem to have spent far too long doing so. I do hope your worst fears don't come to pass, as much as I like doing my own modding, other people's stuff turn Bethsoft's offerings from good games into great ones, but the amount of mods I like to install would get prohibitively expensive; or more likely simply wouldn't exist at all if the free modding community was discouraged in any way. It weathered the late appearance of the CK over the last couple of games but if they start getting heavy-handed with the likes of Nexus that might be a different story. Let's hope they don't.