If everyone had that mentality, we’d quickly see full priced games charging you 50 cents just to start a new game. A quarter for every respawn! 10 cents to reload! This kind of business model has NO BUSINESS outside of F2P titles.
It’s a market-driven business. If that happened, and no one played, it would quickly die. Or people would pay and it would survive.
The answer is always if you don’t like it, don’t pay and don’t play. Find another business model to support.
As someone who is no longer a gamer, I agree with this. The people that complain the most about this are the ones that will be first in line to buy it. That said, I agree completely that this business model is horrific and shady as all hell.