The blog post doesn’t actually make it clear if they’re charging to play the PvE (optimistic I know).
Permanent access to the Overwatch 2: Invasion Story Missions
But given it’s Overwatch, the bad press has already started and will no doubt spread like wildfire. They only have themselves to blame so w/e.
OW2 came with some genuinely good gameplay changes (depending on who you ask. The topic of 5v5 is contentious at best.) that made the game feel legitimately fresh. Could it have been a “2.0” patch/expansion instead of being presented as a sequel? Probably. But skins are optional as always because the real meat of the game was the gameplay since the start.