The devs said at one point that some of the ideas in ToTK were supposed to be DLC at one point.

That’s it. That’s all some people are processing. “Oh it’s just DLC.” Facts don’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the reason it wasn’t DLC was that they kept expanding on the ideas. It doesn’t matter that the final product was a full game. “But they reused the map!!! 😡😡😡😡”

The “it’s just DLC lol” nonsense will persist until the end of time.