The price objection makes no sense at all. Five minutes ago, I was looking at a long list of items on my Steam Wishlist, many of which are "AAA" games that are now under $20. As for DLC, so what? I only pick and choose the best DLC. It doesn't hurt me not to play the rest. If you're somehow driven to buy all DLC then that's really your own fault.
What it looks like to me is that you want to like indies and you want to dislike AAA games, so you're casting around for rationalizations.
Personally, I play whatever I see that looks good and don't give a toss about the labels. Without thinking about genres or budgets, it turns out that I like a fairly mixed variety of titles. I think it would be a waste to give up one or the other so I can fit "gaming" into a compartmentalized agenda.
A game isn't good or bad because someone sticks "indie" or "AAA" on the tag list.
