The thing that should upset people is the ONLY reason it got this massive update is because it failed as a cash grab. Not enough people are talking about how CA removed the "Saga" branding from the title. It's now just a proper standard historical branding they follow.
This is what the game should have been from the start. The fact it came out not to long after they "stopped development" just shows how much crap they had waiting for implementation.
My suspicion is the "paused DLC" to focus on the core game(their words Dec 2023) and they moved all of this over then expanded the dlc into what we have today. If the next DLC comes out in 4-5 months(their typical release cycle) then we know I'm correct.