FF7 Remake has sold 5 million so far!

[Lord Golbez]

That doesn't make any sense. There's no way it could be "plainly obvious" ahead of time without spoilers. I'm sure it's obvious after you've already played the game, but that's a different story. I imagine there's some "choose your scenario kupo" situation in the game (which I never reached), except there's no actual moogle telling you to choose your scenario, kupo! So really unless you already know that's where the DLC fits in, you're not going to know to stop the game and start playing DLC there.

That's not even addressing the fact that you said you wouldn't recommend doing Episode Ignis in the chronological spot for a newcomer. How would a newcomer even know that, aside from your recommendation?