I think the point OP is making is they’ve easily spent enough time with the game to have credibility on the matter. They easily got more than $45 worth of time out of it, but that doesn’t change the argument that $45 is way too steep a price for the current state of the game.
Considering OP owns the game already they aren’t complaining for their own sake. They saw the price others would pay and felt that was ridiculous.