Whew, I heard from a friend it was going that way. The Devs say in the article that they just meant it would recieve occasional content updates like they did with with the first game in their early access model.
They confirmed that it will not have any subscriptions, or battle passes or anything which is great. They also mention that while coop will be possible, it won’t be required to play the game, and you can still experience everything single player.
Glad to hear they haven’t joined the dark side yet!
Hopefully they’re Family to help with the victim queues, my friends pretty much stopped playing victim because it takes so long to find a match.