i personaly bought the Comander pack on a sale when it still existed i think it was about 15€ but not sure (even that was a good bit of money to me back then) and i got 2 alt acounts from epic.
I paid the full price for the CMDR pack on XBox 4 years ago, then paid the full price for it again on PC 3 years ago, then again paid full price for it for my son a year ago on PC, then bought an Alt when it went on sale on Steam for £10 for Horizons + CMDR Pack earlier this year and whilst I haven't used it yet, I did get a free alt on Epic too. That's because I'm invested in the game, clearly you are too, but someone getting it for £5 or Free purely because of the price, rather than because they actually want to play a space game, means they're probably going to walk away from the game at some point, either because it's too easy, or too hard, or they got ganked too often.