You could call it hypocrisy if hound claimed that he was helping to keep game the alive but also making the statement that he does not pay. If some forum members could get over their bad opinion of hound they would see he has some valid points just like many other members of this forum.
It does nothing helpful to constantly trash someone’s viewpoint and reply to them in sarcastic or aggressive means.
If the new 5* will be required before it is in a cp store that would stink for sure. If bringing attention to dissatisfaction with that possibility could get the devs to not do it that would be great. But we still do not have solid facts that they are doing it.
Maybe when that happened with the professor they saw a spike in spending. So maybe they would want to try it again to see if that was a fluke or if spenders are ok with that.
We do not have access to the data that the devs do. They will continue to make decisions based on that data. So what may seem like a horrible decision to many players may actually be paying off for them if enough players support it.