The DEVs on Homecoming have a focused blueprint for what they are doing, and they are releasing updates on a fairly regular schedule.
I think in some ways, they are release updates faster than was happening in CoH before the Sunset.
And I have to say, that many of the "rapid"/regular schedule updates were P2W and microtransactions.
I'm not a fan of either, though as a subscriber I did benefit from some of the P2W advantages.
By participating in the forums on Homecoming, you are actively supporting the game.
I think you are locked into the mindset that "supporting" a game means providing money versus working to support the community through the forums, hosting teams in game, and participating in the wiki.
You have plenty of ways that you can "support" Homecoming without it needing to become "commercial".
I find Homecoming to be far superior to where CoH was before the Sunset, but, that should be obvious, I'm playing Homecoming now and cancelled my subscription to CoH a year before the Sunset because I didn't like the direction the game was going at that time.
I don't want to see a game that I love go back to the game that I loved that turned into something I found distasteful and had to stop playing because of it.