While I agree, they absolutely deserve the heat they are getting, it's not productive if the devs are feeling stressed out about it after EA / release. That's why I said "Larian, relax". They should focus on stability now and on story or game breaking bugs. The way they release patches currently (with loads and loads of low priority stuff and regular invention of new game breaking bugs) makes it seem they are pretty overworked and this is neither helping them nor the players.
Yeah. DE is most likely going to be free, otherwise there will be a lot of backlash. The reason why a lot of people are defending Larian right now is because some of us don’t want them to stop listening to fan feedback and turn them into yet another game company that don’t give a damn about what people want. People should word their criticism constructively or it’s just going to another headache for you
and them. This and similar threads always seem to reek of entitlement tbh (no slight to OP). Just be patient.