This kind of game has existed for ages, and there were always stupid people to buy them, I don't think this is going to change, at the very least cities is a very entertaining game, but I'll just play the base version on game pass and be done with it. I would be more inclined to download a cracked version of it than to pay for all those DLCs, that's just stupid, you're paying like 10x the game price just on DLCs and they aren't even big DLCs.
I would have no problem with that if no DLC ever surpassed 5 bucks at full price and especially those like "3 radio stations" DLCs should cost pennies.