Imagine you're in charge of XI, you have a limited budget (most of which goes on wages) and Square won't fund above and beyond what you currently get allocated.

What would you do if you wanted to keep it running, given also that the ps2 devkits recently broke?

>move most of the developers off the project for a while to save money on wages
>use that money to fund a new dev kit or dev kit emulator for pc from a 3rd party company
>developers come back when done

I dunno if this is what is happening, and they will never admit it if they are but it possible that is what they are upto.