"Even worse: I don't get why some players are reacting as if they were already overwhelmed by the current state of the game." -> It's not about settling for little. It's knowing what your demands represent in terms of work and time.
Adding is easy. Balancing and correcting everything without distorting it takes much longer, especially for a game like this where everything is connected.
Mods have fewer constraints. They can work without unit tests for example , and focus on a single point of view (diplomacy, thief, fantasy...) even if this unbalances other mechanics of the base game.
not wanting improvements it's settle for less.
which is mostly the opinion of console players.
if your money, that you used for buy the game, it's not worthy. A lot of Ppl feels other way and they don't want settle for basic game
Specially this game is primary PC, the stupidest decision to release for console now got in the way of Development.
Because the Fifa player, CoD players, doesn't want a better game. They just wanna speed run and be done with it
Console players are known to not give a dog poop for quality