Note that No Man's Sky did the exact same fucking thing: the method is "fine you have to release when Sony says because they're fucking idiots who don't understand how anything works" followed by "and the proof of that is the conventional wisdom that 85% of your sales is in the first week."
I have yet to play Phantom Liberty but I'm a little maudlin over the fact that CDPR had to abandon their game engine after Cyberpunk. It's a masterpiece for a certain type of person, and I'm that person.