Quote Originally Posted by Tiktaks View Post
I don't think it has to do with the Playstation 2 limitations, but server stress. Having Linkshells with hundreds of members on at once wouldn't be nice for SquareEnix to handle stress wise.

With the game currently as is, not as many Linkshells reach the 64 member cap as they used to, so I don't see it being as bad as a problem as it used to.
While I am not against the idea, you yourself are already giving a pretty good reason why this is pretty unlikely to happen.
I've come back from a 9 month hiatus about a month ago myself, and am very pleased with some of the QoL changes put into this game, like the extra storage and the mog wardrobe.
But at the same time I have noticed that loading times have increased considerably, even with the dwindeled server populations.

And I am pretty sure SE isn't going to invest in any upgrades in this game's network infrastructure soon.