You don’t have to agree.
If you think that trying to pry the same people off of AoE2 who refused to moved on to AoE3 is Relics strongest marketing move… then that’s on you, my guy. 
Personally, I’ma have a very hard time taking the word of a guy who thinks that a 20something year old game should randomly switch over to… a subscription model? Yikes, dude.