And yet here we are in an "age" where nearly everything people hated when playing FFXI is gone. If anything your argument is a reasoning for converting FF14 into FFXI 2.0. We've been hearing screams about how the end is nigh due to limitations for at least half a decade and I'm still hearing that same old BS spouted as if anyone on ps2 or 360 honestly gives much of a crap anymore about apocalyptic prophecies. PSO has been officially dead since forever and there are servers everywhere.
Even with that doom and gloom arm infection analogy you're skipping the part where you're going to have a perfectly functioning arm for months until you reach any sort of critical mass, the idea that one can create a new body for a nominal fee( v2.0) and that SE as a company has been doing very poorly lately financially speaking so you're asking the doctor(SE) to send you to surgery(while expecting future advanced upgrades to your body that the doctor never cared about giving before) for free when the hospital is nearly bankrupt, and the fact that for an unknown( to me , I'm sure there are people employed by SE that can calculate this) amount of time you're going to actually be worse off.


You want ps2 support gone? Then convince SE to make an upgraded version of the game and let the former ps2/xbox players( use the original codes to figure out who started on ps2) have a discount on the box price(or give some sort of incentive/consolation prize to the ps2 users being left out) because the current tack in the argument just sounds like the crazy hobo's ranting about the incoming rapture whom keeps pushing back the expected date for it to happen.

IT's not to say the day wont come, however you're overestimating how many people have, may, and will quit because of ps2 limitations. If they were going to quit because of those they would have done so back when SE's excuse for everything was ps2limitations (which turned out to be lies but back then many people took it at face value). It's safer to think that if people left the game it's because they had that travesty of an expansion ACP(I only bought it because I couldn't believe that it was really as big a waste of money as I'd heard), because of the previous boxed expansion having almost every zone a 99% recycled zone while proclaiming that we had new and exciting areas to discover, stretching it out over several years to the point that people just plain got sick of even bothering to remember where they were mission wise while those that did care probably forgot several months before(and yet we dont see people petitioning to delete wotg zones and replace it with a better expansion), SE blaming the initial RMT account hackings on the players while simultaneously charging them money to get back on their own original server, the endgame linkshells ls that openly paid over $2000 for bots without repercussion, and that nonsense with the PW/AV fiasco.
If ffxi is slowly dying as claimed due to the ps2 factor is negligible and mostly ran its course out long ago.(Until around next year if SE truly hasn't found a way around anything and assuming the content we do get is good)