The thing that irks me about incremental releases is that they charge full price for every new release AND include micro-transactions. So we end up in this sit

The thing that irks me about incremental releases is that they charge full price for every new release AND include micro-transactions. So we end up in this situation where to be consumer friendly they should either adopt a rolling release F2P model (like fortnite, dota, cs:go, etc) or at the very least pledge long term support to each release. They do neither so games like Call of Duty end up as a money pit when they get infested with hackers a couple of years after the series moves on to the next title.