Isn't that a little bit TOO harsh? I mean, it will still be free and gestures like this have always been their policy. They don't cut it out to make a PR move. It just isn't finished yet.
Didn't they say the game was pretty much feature complete and that they were just polishing and bug squashing at this point? I find it hard to believe that the game that was going to have been released (before two delays for polishing) would have a feature like car customization in such an infancy stage that it'd need to be cut content.
Again though, how do you determine that besides blind faith in the studio? I don't hold any developer above criticism. There's a difference between something like "free DLC" when it's stuff not developed prior to a game's completion and that which is likely complete (or close to) and then cut to be added later.
Haven't other studios received harsh criticisms for doing the same and then selling it back? What's really the difference between doing it for some quick cash and doing it for the PR?
I mean, like I said in my original post. I wouldn't care if it's something that's cut or not as I don't see car customization as important to this type of game. I would prefer they focus on the character customization (cybernetics) and the dialogue or choices. So if it was cut then it was cut.
I would only take issue if this is somehow added some weeks after release and advertised as some "we're good guys because free DLC" type of move. If they come out and add it, but list it as, "Hey this was pretty much something which was finished, but we needed to prioritize to meet deadlines for the launch, but we finished afterwards so here you go", then that'd mean a lot more to someone like myself.