What does it matter? It's a PVE game...
Surely, I don't support the fact that developers nowadays release beta versions of their games and then charge for "patches" but apart from that, nobody is hurting anyone here for investing some money in.
It's not like the first two weren't just a massive grind anyway (and I have to say here that I've played and enjoyed both games) - at least people who don't have the time can now speed this process up.