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The harsh truth is something you said yourself OP; the biggest part of poe's success is consistent content. That's what they're working on, but for Poe2. In order to capture and grow poe2 they have to completely focus on it.
It makes near zero financial sense to focus on the older game with a smaller playerbase when you've got this new game that's already hugely successful in early access. Mtx is shared, so there's no real isolated revenue that poe1 can make that poe2 can't.
The fact is, ggg was bought. They answer to shareholders now, and they must show profit and growing profit every year. Just the numbers on poe2s EA that had a price tag eclipsed poe1s.
I suspect they'll try to do something in poe1 in-between now and whenever 3.26 launches, but it's very clearly all focus on poe2 for the next big update.
Not sure how true it is, but Palsteron claimed that they make a fairly huge amount on PoE league launches. PoE2 after the EA purchases won’t have new MTX sales until full launch. If they even spend a single day on MTX prior to fixing PoE2’s massive flaws it is a major red flag on the company direction. They will have to throw a league or 2 for PoE this year.
You can bet on it, brother. Next classes are Druid and Huntress, both will arrive with pets/shapeshift. That opens the box of pandora for sweet MTX sales. Who doesn't want to have a cooler bear or cute looking rhoa?
And don't worry, you can use soon your MTX from PoE, after the casuals put the game aside
