That's becoming my takeaway here as well. Don't jump into any live service game early, because it might get rug-pulled right as I'm getting into it.
Of course, if everyone took this approach then no live service game will ever take off, which kinda feels like where we are anyways.
Honestly, I think gaming is done with new live service offerings.
Live service used to be a way to get a core-complete, feature-limited games in front of players earlier than if they were fully baked. This was actually good for everyone, as player feedback often guided roadmaps and changes. But now everyone expects every new game to be better than Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. on day one. This just won't ever happen.
Also, the gaming community of today is OBSESSED with popularity numbers (steam concurrents and twitch view count, mostly), and if players don't see that everyone else is playing a game then they won't play either. This is fucking dumb, but we are where we are.
And don't even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate. They bitch about being stuck with CoD, then shit on anything that could someday compete with it. It's baffling.