Is there a disconnect between Blizzard and the community?

[Alael-madoran (Alael)]

Here’s another from our SL champion (at least today). As the OP it begins:

Why am I spending $15 for a monthly sub if you're gonna timegate eveything

If i’m expected to pay $15 a month on top of 40 - 60$ every expansion, why am I being forced to play the game at the same pace as everyone else? The game never used to be this time gated but literally every major feature in this expansion feels like it’s rushed: PvP imbalances that could’ve been solved in beta but somehow made it to live M+ loot problems and recently Blizz made a post saying they’re reducing loot from raids now too?? Alt catch up with threads takes insanely long and is worse t…

. . and to highlight one of the top bullets:

@Tupacshekar-tichondrius

Torghast doesn’t give any other reward for your time besides yet another time gated currency grind that they forced leggos behind