Yeah. I cameinto expectation that with all the changes to internal functions, paying more often for a new expansion is the new norm. I mean its kinda obvious, given the extremely short turnaround time between EoD and SoO.
We are in the era of 25$ for 3-5 maps + its story content, and I think itll stay that way till GW2 is unprofitable.
Its going to follow roughly the same expansion cadence that FF14 has (ehich is about every 2 years)
The different Garuda varients sans the gaming version are different desktop environments. Garuda just happens to support a lot. The gaming version of dragonized (which is KDE) is just dragonized with preinstalled gaming apps, probably the ones featured on their garuda gamer app