Given the recent poopstorm, i’d say ANet handled it pretty well and the amendments are appropriate and fair.
For a 50 dollar price tag, i feel the expansion is worth $40, and the character slot is the standard $10, which imo is a much fairer deal than before, and i am quite happy with that.
I am sure ANet had good intentions from the start, but they are humans not gods after all and can’t always do what the community expects them to do from the first try.
All in all, i love you ANet, you are my favorite developer and have been for many many years, and i am looking forward to playing your expansion and continually supporting your awesome game