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Paradox still has the best model in my opinion. The DLC cost is wild if you're buying it outside of a steam sale as a new player, but I bought Victoria 3 as soon as I could at $50. It was a flawed foundation that I saw immense potential in. I've bought all the $20~ major DLCs since while avoiding the cosmetic ones. I know they're going to refine it into a near-perfect grand strategy game for about 10 years if I spend $20-40 per year on those major DLCs. Half-assed weekly updates don't benefit me at all compared to the difference between 1.7-1.8 Victoria 3 happening months apart.
The nice thing about that model is that you can pick and choose which expansions to get. Stellaris is my "gap game" that I play when there's nothing new that I'm interested in, so I return to it every couple of months. There have generally been a few new DLCs released between my runs through it; some of them are interesting to me, and some aren't. I get what's interesting, and even if there's nothing new that I want, I still benefit from new versions and mechanical updates. Making the DLCs a la carte like that means that they have to deliver enough new content to make them look worth it. I can't imagine just paying a flat monthly fee to mostly get cosmetics and dogshit new "missions" or whatever.