A good story was turned into another damned moneysucker. Not so willing to catch up anymore, no thanks to MP events. Wait till they add the VIP bundles and/or a scripted full story reset.
P.S. pardon the language, the fed-up annoyance is hard to contain.
If that happens, they may obviously receive profits from their biggest investors, but the rest of us will be just like you and even quit the game.
There are many cases of games with the same story, having a great time, until they kill you for putting pay2win stuff or the famous VIP membership as you say.
And regarding the change in history, I think it is very subjective, although it is obvious that it is decisive and HPHM will depend on that.