Well, to be fair, they had just had a sale, encouraging people to buy, and there were some people who bought Perfect Patio to have access to a hot tub, and within a week we get one patched in.
There are others who say they bought the pack long ago because the devs had assured us that hot tubs would never be revisited outside of the pack.
Yet others who don't have a lot of money and get packs much later than their release date, prioritizing a Stuff Pack for its "hero object", only to have that "hero object" become commonplace.
Then there are people in the community who own the pack, see the object as something we already have, and feel left out because the hot tub isn't something new for them.
And finally, some who see it as a low effort, last-minute, token afterthought to give the community something on a highly anticipated anniversary. As some have described it, "It feels like that anniversary when your partner forgets, and they stop on the way home to buy some dying flowers from a gas stop so they have something to give you."
Maybe if Perfect Patio had a permanent price reduction it would have made some sense. It would have meant that the pack was old and outdated and being put to the wayside, essentially "retiring". I think when that happens, people generally understand it. But to continue to sell it for full price but render the main gameplay object obsolete... It reduces the value of the pack and makes the players look like they're being taken advantage of. Which they most likely are anyway.
