If we're talking base game + DLC/expansion content that launches Day 1...
Dude - EA, Take Two, and Sony have been doing that with FIFA/FC, Madden, NBA 2K, and MLB: the Show for YEARS now.

Breath of the Wild's DLC got announced in February 2017, the month before the game's release. Didn't turn out as bad as it was made out to be.

Switch 2 games + expansion pass reaching the 100 mark had to be expected when Switch 1 games + expansion pass had already reached 90. After all, Switch 2 games cost 10 more, so that's basic math.

The new Pokémon Legends game getting an expansion pass isn't exactly a surprise either when all the mainline Pokémon games on Switch 1 had one.

The simple solution for the people who don't like it is don't buy it. Although even that can upset some people because they realize that they belong to a minority while they would like to get the majority approval.

1. Normativity does matter when it comes to pricing and content packaging. So no, it isn't a logical fallacy to bring it up. What is considered essential and should be included by the overwhelming majority of the player base does have an effect on those decisions. 

2. If cosmetics in games are rip offs, then what is the complaint here? Either you value the content or you don't. I think you're underestimating the work involved anyway. There is the conceptual phase of these assets that takes a lot more than 5 minutes to a few hours, many different ideas and assets that are discarded once implemented are not included in the final versions, making asset style and quality fit with the rest of the content, etc. 

Regardless, this is the standard in the industry. Purely aesthetic, optional content, is often sold separately. 

3. When I was in elementary school almost everyone I knew would buy Pokémon Ruby. I had Sapphire and was able to make a lot of trades because of it. Today it is a lot easier with online trades, but it wasn't uncommon to get multiple versions of the games back in the first four generations just to complete a Pokedex. 

As an adult I do only have a few handful of friends who play Pokemon. That isn't unusual at all.

I am not a completionist though and never cared too much about "catching them all." 

Story DLC being announced before the game releases versus story DLC being announced months after the release have vastly different taste, indeed.

Buying a game and before launch having official confirmation that if you don't pay extra for it (to the point it reaches $100) you won't have the full story is completely insane.

Even as companies can and will have this kind of stuff ready or almost ready by launch and wait for the announcement, this can be the case, yes, when it's made official before launch it goes from speculation realm, which you never know, to being official.

You know whats really sad? Nintendo will most likely get away with this as people will still flock to buy anything pokemon. 

Afterall, us vocal people are in the minority. And as long as Nintendo can get away with it, they will get away with it.

By your only examples most of the 5 did not even reach the $100 mark.

Season Pass is more equivalent to Expansion, so season pass announced and available for purchase before the game releases, specially the closest it releases to the base game, is also really scummy.

I can think of Tekken 8 taking Eddy Gordo out of the main game, one of the most famous characters, and use it as the first DLC was also pathetic.

Or Atlus taking FES away from Persona 3 to sell it as DLC on the remake.

This problem is industry wise, but the silent treatment for this specific company, specially in this forums, is just shameful. Pokémon being the biggest media franchise ever and ridiculously profitable adds insult to the injury.

The point of the thread is both that this is reached joke levels of ridiculous greedy and that threads are not made about it here, when others will get posted, even as the Nintendo presence in the forums is vastly superior and various non gaming related threads are made, but it's getting devoid of purposedly ignored themes that involved being harsh on it.

They actually come to defend it when it's the case.

It is not here to point to Nintendo as the worst or the only company pulling shit of its customers, tho.

I mean, Nintendo is the worst DLC offender IMO since they introduced physical, exclusive, overpriced and very limited DLC, in the form os Amiibos, yes, but that is not the point of this one thread.

One of the reasons why I am alright with these pricing-schemes with Nintendo is Nintendo is a relatively (as much as you can be in capitalism) pro-worker company with a low turnover rate and low layoff rate. 

https://gonintendo.com/contents/50924-nintendo-employee-data-reveals-low-turnover-rate-long-average-employment-period

If EA or Ubisoft does it, you know it is going straight to the investors. Especially with mass layoffs industry-wide in recent years. With Nintendo, they tend to reinvest it back into their workforce -- being generally conservative about layoffs. 

If it is really a big problem though, just pirate the games when you get the opportunity. Piracy doesn't hurt the game industry as much as Nintendo (and most publishers) think. Most people prefer to purchase games because it is more convenient, and piracy helps with word of mouth/hype by having more people playing. When I was young and grew up in a poor family I would pirate games, and now I purchase all of my games (often from series I would pirate) because I really don't feel like going through the effort of managing a lot that is automated currently (cloud saves, online, firmware, etc) and games are relatively affordable for me compared to other hobbies. 

Or just wait for sales and stop feeling like you have to play everything as soon as it comes out. Back in the Wii/3DS/Wii U days, I felt like I had to show support for any decent game on my consoles, otherwise I wasn't doing my part. Now that Nintendo doesn't need little old me anymore, I have no problems acquiring first and third party games years down the line.

Sales, giveaways, GotY editions, "Ultimate" editions, compilations, patches, superior ports on other platforms. There are so many games that I regret buying too early for those reasons, and there are so many games that I'm glad I waited on for those same reasons.

Nintendo is the one company I don't wait on because their sales are relatively rare and temporary. Nintendo games rarely drop permanently in price. That might be why there is so much anxiety surrounding them pricing games high/comparable to their competition. Usually a third party AAA title can be purchased for half price a year out. Rarely is that the case for Nintendo. 

Still, if one follows a game deal website and sets alerts one can find even their games on a sale.