We don't know the implications of a higher difficulty, It could be more than just +enemy health, +More damage per hit and less health/useful items.
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt because the enemies don't scale in difficulty as you progress(Like Xenoblade for example)

More zelda more me :)

You can justify paying $100.00 for a single game but I'm not buying one single piece of DLC for the rest of my life. Done with it. I grew up in an era where you paid your $50.00 and you got a game that was 100% finished, fully tested and never needed to be updated with patches etc. I'm not going to change. They can keep trying all they want, I'm not falling for it.

Because they're getting less game for the same money. They love their hobby. That upsets them. When people are upset, they get emotional. When they get emotional, they express it.

It's pretty simple.

Not always...

No. It's not.

The Witcher Developers gave DLC away for free.

Bioware gave a heap of DLC away for free for Mass Effect 3.

Overwatch gives all it's DLC away for free.

Or. They could do what games used to do. Have an "expansion pack" which often was a game in-of itself. It wasn't junk like Horse Armour.

DLC breaks up expansion packs into smaller entities, but charge an overall higher price.

Or. They could look at other business models. Advertising, Micro-transactions or rely on the quality of their titles to help drive higher volumes.

Nintendo doesn't have to rely on it's first party games selling many-millions as it's business model doesn't purely rely on it, it's fine to have a few loss-leading game franchises if it sells more hardware to attract other developers so they can gain more licensing fee's.

Nintendo should try and set a better example and lead the Industry, not merely fall short or match it.

I despise DLC in all it's incarnations. Give me an expansion pack, make it substantual, take my $50 AUD, otherwise you don't get a sale. That simple.

I agree with all 5 points...

Zelda is finished and complete - DLC are just extra - with the exception of Hero Mode - but we know very little about that!

If it were complete, there'd be no DLC and they'd be moving on to something else. This isn't something that is spontaneous. It wasn't like Nintendo made the game, finished it and then a few weeks later went "hey... why don't we make some more shit!". That's not what happened. To make DLC, extensive planning needed to be done. It was totally contrived. Hard mode was obviously left out of the main game on purpose.

In all my years playing games (and that goes back to Atari), every single game with multiple difficulty levels has that option in-game from the start or as an unlockable bonus. This was contrived to make money, period.

It sounds like most of the backlash is geared towards the fact that they're locking a difficulty mode and other essential parts of the game (extra dungeons, etc.) behind a paywall. So basically, a game that has been shown for 2.5 years is shipping incomplete. 

While I understand the criticism, I largely agree that it's not worth getting upset over. The game looks enormous and is absolutely worth the $60 price. DLC will just extend its lifespan. 

Witcher 3 is how DLC should be done. Too bad not many are keen on following their example.