Not trying to fuel the fire here, but I think some people have short-term memory.
The last expansion was released in Nov 2007. The one before that was released in Feb 2007. SoD will be the FIRST expansion released in it's own year. So it's not "been like that for awhile now".
Granted, it's a perception thing, but I'd bet a lot of actual casual gamers (not power nerds like JJ
) couldn't tell you when SoF was released -- they only remember getting hammered by multiple releases within a few months of each other.