It's my understanding that originally there was intention to flesh out the story mode aspect of the game with DLC / downloadable content quite significantly com

It's my understanding that originally there was intention to flesh out the story mode aspect of the game with DLC / downloadable content quite significantly compared to what it is today. As someone with no previous experience with GTA series since the original top down view version i enjoyed the singleplayer story and experience of GTA V a lot and the world building was amazing. I've run around the map for hours and there's lot's of places that serve absolutely no purpose but gives the impression that it was intended to play a part of some story at some point in the game. In the end I guess the online part got 'too' successful and basically made Rockstar focus only on this portion of the game. The GTA V story mode world seems like the minimum version for getting story mode to work. And a certain fruit company sure gets mentioned a lot as well :)