It seems you didn't actually read the article
AKA Sean is saying that the world is not ideal“maybe in the future there’s some reason why we just couldn’t possibly afford to do a certain feature without charging for it.”
pcgamer catching on to what he saidIf your updates are perceived as fixes, fairly or not, you sure don't want to be asking people to fork over more money for them—though it doesn't sound like that's the plan going forward, and any paid DLC is a hypothetical scenario.