So... why was the novus quest delayed again?
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't it because they wanted to give us "more" ways to obtain alexandrite and to take players' feedback into account?
Citation:
When we were planning to release this in patch 2.25, the means to obtain Alexandrite were very limited, and one suggestion from Takai was to make it purchasable with Allagan tomestones of mythology. As we were unable to create new means to acquire Allagan tomestones of mythology, we decided to push it back a patch to work on more ways for players to acquire Alexandrite
That's from the live letter summary and I can't be bothered to find the quote about taking feedback into consideration, but let's just assume that that's exactly what they did. Let's also keep in mind that the biggest complaint was how much everyone hated grinding FATES.
Wouldn't that mean that the only means of obtaining alexandrite they had originally planned for was FATE grinding and that, in line with player feedback, the "new means" of acquiring them would be myth purchases (confirmed in the quote yet also another common complaint) and the daily quest?
So... it took over a month to create one repeatable quest that isn't even a unique quest and to add maps to the myth vendor's inventory...? You can't be serious.