I will be applying for my refund if it does not drop by this time next week alongside an assurance that this will not be the operating model going forward for EA. I'll happily wait until release, but I'm not going to allow Larian to take my $60 and then let me play whenever they feel like it.
I feel the missing piece here is that we cannot have backward compatibility on stadia, so I literally have no reason to play right now since my save could just up and disappear at any time. This radio silence is getting very old.