Apologies if maybe my original comment was a little brash, but the actual Game Director of HOI4 just "Disagreeing" this and moving on without comment just further dampens my confidence as a consumer and doesn't seem like great optics. I don't think its unreasonable to expect thorough communication after a release like this, even if maybe my messaging was a little off.
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We know virtually nothing about the upcoming releases, other than that Operation KNEE will be a "Patch" for GoE, and Operation SHOULDER is going to be a war effort patch that's probably mostly unrelated to GoE. If Knee is similar in size to this one, I don't think it comes anywhere close to making GoE a DLC you could realistically rate positively still.
The promise of April updates & changes to GoE is nice and a good sign, but is incredibly vague and deliberately avoids making any promises in particular.