Just saw this - wow, announcing the C8.R and releasing it THIS WEEK!?!?! Merry Christmas indeed.
I'm not going to argue over the pricing. Yup, they're on the expensive side relative to some other DLCs, and whether it's too much depends on your personal limit of what you're willing to pay. I can easily spend the same or more on other things that don't get as much time used per dollar, so for me it's not really a problem. I don't buy the things I'm not interested in. One thing I kind of wish was possible, is that all the cars of a class could be in the sim as AI and you can only drive the ones you buy. I tend to mostly stick to my favorite cars to drive but I still like to have a varied field of opponents, so I end up buying the other cars just to race against in a couple of the other cars that I prefer driving.
I may have more hours in RF2 than everything else in my Steam library combined, and all the other stuff adds up to a lot more than what I've spent in RF2. And, it's already been mentioned several times but there's been a fair pile of free content from S397 since they took over. Whether it's as good as the paid DLC, or whether it is of the same interest to most people is up to the individual, but I've been pleasantly surprised by most of it. And... they don't have to do it.
And no, that doesn't mean all is forgiven for some of the outstanding issues that have lingered for years. Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding is the new content people aren't necessarily the same that would work on the game engine and stamp out bugs. I'm not sure the "they should fix ____ first before they do any other new content" argument really works that way if the car and track programmers aren't taking resources away from bug fixing. But hey, I don't work there so I don't really know.
I hope more DPi are on the way (Mazda please!), I'm biased towards IMSA stuff, but if we got a new Daytona I *think* we'd pretty much have all the major global endurance race tracks? I don't know how much attention Petit Le Mans gets globally, but Road Atlanta is a great track to drive too. Having said that, I have mod versions of Daytona and Road Atlanta I'm happy with - but official ones would be great.