I have to take ECH/Chilly's sides here. EA ruins most games it gets a hold of. This isn't speculation. A short search on EA titles will show you there almost complete lack of support for their titles. It's crap, and the only thing they are concerned with is making money, they have no concern for the people that buy their games, or even for making quality games.
Saying that Take2 would financially benefit from this is silly, too. EA's track record shows that Take 2 would likely be closed, and that the only thing EA wanted from the acquisition is the rights to the studio name, and the games they own. And for what? So they can make their own GTA, that has less features, and terrible update support? I say good for T2 for turning them down.
I hope the EA bigwigs fall on their swords, the gaming world would be a better place.