Guess i should rephrase my statement. Stop TAKING PTO, expecting something else to happen during it. Especially when you have no control over it.
Stop for just a moment and think about this. Do you honestly think that this is the type of news that Yoshi wanted to announce?
There are certainly regular meeting all during those months, during each one people plan and provide estimates and it goes up the chain to the producer. Each time he gets news saying that they're on schedule, but each time they're always risks that could delay the schedule. They try to plan to reduce the risks, but sometimes, they can't , and stuff happens.
They announced a schedule, it will be late, and they informed everyone in advance. OK, they provided a 2 week warning but they may honestly have found it only a week ago, may even a bit more before that and it could have taken that long to get a new schedule approved.
I took off 2 weeks for launch and it is WAY too late for me to cancel it. It took a lot of work to get coverage for me.
The delay itself is whatever but I'm really disappointed they didn't have the courtesy to announce the delay sooner, they obviously knew about it. Yoshida himself made it a point to apologize to people who took off. If you gave me adequate notice I wouldn't be so pissed.
"Sorry guys we can't do another Ultimate this expansion because then we'd have to delay Endwalker"
"Ooops we gotta delay Endwalker anyway"
Well thanks for nothing I guess.