Flame Dragon

The difference with third versions is you get an actual different version of the story, major story shifts, Pokemon species and distribution edits, sometimes rearranging gyms, and so on. You paid for a different experience than the original. And by your logic, Speed Deoxys was in Gen 3. USUM is the only majorly offensive one of the bunch, as it didn’t earn its price tag edit.

To most people, these aren’t one and done games then on to competitive. For a competitive player this is basically the same, if not better, but it’s not for someone who enjoys replaying the games. The price tag of $30 for 200 more Pokémon, with a large chunk of legendaries, and two new wild areas isn’t... worth it?

An area available from, basically, the start will either be under leveled, over leveled, or be weirdly middling. Which, in a game that already has issues with making you over level too easily, it won’t fit into the main game. If they do manage it, great, but there’s nothing to suggest they would.

Plus a huge part of adding Pokémon in is the ability to use them in-game for those types, which is something that you have to pay or pray for. I have issues with the way the wild area was handled in general, but that’s not the issue for now.

And the lack of the GTS is still an issue, especially with how finnicky the WiFi mechanics are. Some people, like Arlo, have even reported basically never being able to connect to anyone else over it.

Yes, the series has had poor practices in the past. That’s no excuse to continue supporting them when the initial product offered isn’t worth $60, much less an additional $30. Even if you got both Sun and Ultra Sun (which was also an issue people did not like), it cost $80. This costs $90 for less, overall.

I honestly couldn't remember if Gen 3 introduced version locked forms.  

I think it is much too early to try and talk about if the $30 price point is worth it. We have no idea how much content is actually in them. And I am very curious how the level balance is going to be handled since this is a post-game area and it is really easy to get your Pokemon to level 100 thanks to the overflowing EXP Candies. 

Your comment about using the Pokemon in game would hold even if the DLC was free since its Post-Game. If I wanted to use Rockruff on my team I just can't until its in the main game for a new game still. 

I am in full agreement removing the GTS is very dumb.

Eh. I differently got $60 worth from just the main game and I haven't even started breeding. I was just as upset as anyone with Dexit (I literally spent over 1000 hours making an in-depth living dex) but if you're just talking about number of Pokemon in the main game 400 is perfectly reasonable.

DLC isn’t postgame. I added that I was wrong about that later. It’s available at the start of the wild area, at least technically. How accessible it really is remains to be seen.

The main game was one of the worst in the series, as I saw it. Only Kalos and ORAS feel worse. Even without accounting for the cut pokemon, the game itself wasn’t worth $60 to me, if even $40, and it’s a fairly common opinion. I can’t justify an additional $30 on top of something I don’t think was worth its cost, so they would have to basically add another campaign for it to be worth it.

It reminds me of Fates, which is... scary.