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This is good for keeping a transparent relationship with the community! Don't feel obligated to justify yourself to ignorant UnknownAsshole(s). Keep doing whats best for you. You'll never satisfy everyone, and usually only the vocal minority, will be the ones who complain (They're not your target audience anyways).
A wildly successful game that follows this same business model is "Pure Onyx" if you need some encouragement to keep pushing on. Look at how they do releases and content, might help reassure you.
Edit: Other games like "Future Fragments" and "Crisis Point Extinction" are two other WILDLY successful games that have also followed this business model.