Not many players left now, you do have to wonder who they're doing this for?? Doesn't seem all that cost effective, maybe they're just trying to salvage what's left of their reputation...
(God that sounds negative, didn't mean it to!! lol)
Its a reasonable comment for sure, one which I think is true in a sense as well.
I think the reason they are doing it is because they must "have" to release the last two DLC due to season pass owners, as well as that being their plan, but they know the new dlc will break the game even more so need to do something first to fix it.