Well said. This risk tolerance issue sounds exactly like the authoritarian policy if any. Had to learn my lesson after I bought those crom coins just to find out “you are not entitled to use this item” pop up while offline. In an admin panel, all the files are there and it pains me even more when I can’t use them when it is already there and I paid for it.
Perhaps this intolerance is due to the way how additional contents are added? I would guess that because all the “additional contents” already exist in the base game, making the game fully offline would jeopardize their monetization. If they make the game 100% offline playable, it would mean that by downloading a base game, all the players would have access to all the paid contents as well. THIS I think is why they don’t let these contents offline and I strongly believe that there should be a new separate validation or authentication processes to cover this issue.