You will get the patch that goes with the DLC which will have its own features. Well post 1.7 patches anyway
I don’t think so. The detailed feature content they advertised is the paid utopia feature content (1.7). No mention of any free upgrades.
The 1.6 content free patch is already in the game. The 1.8 free patch content looks decent for being free and they certainly would have mentioned that for the Aug 13th release, but they didn’t.
So basically after august 13th, we’ll finally be on proper 1.7. The next expansion, if they do one would be be my guess of 1.8, 1.9, 2.0 for $20.
Now where I am certainly incorrect is bug fixes specific to console like the army tab bug which they have promised to be fixed in the console utopia release (oddly I never ran into this bug though). Any other console specific change they have to make will be in there but game content, no, they would have marketed it.