If SKG get what they want I’ll be even better off when buying games on sale 8 years after release.

Imagine it’s already unsupported and thus:

• Time-limited FOMO events are disabled or left in a predictable cycle
• Can decide to play with friends instead of forced to play with cheaters the publishers can’t seem to keep out of official servers
• Related to previous point but toxic players usually follow the bigger player bases to have more harassment targets and you can ban them yourself if it’s private server or p2p
• Offline play and LAN: play with your travel companions on handheld devices without internet or during outages
• Cash shop shutdown if one existed

Games are ironically going to get better, like a fine wine, as they age and lose support. The alternative is that publishers make them as good at release so people don’t wait until end of life too buy it.

I don’t know if this has been addressed by SKG but my biggest fear is that publishers will push controversial updates that fundamentally change the game like EoC in RuneScape or disable core features before shutdown so that they can say they left it on the newest patch. The game works, but nobody who enjoyed it before is going to want to play it.