I think the main thing to remember here is that Catapult has been regularly preserving lore, understanding the story, reporting localization bugs, and generally just being involved since the game came out. I've been hanging around the Loc/Lore forums since both went up and, like me, he's always been there.
Ferne's been peppering little references to issues esoteric to the Loc/Lore community all over the place for a long time. Spend a few years having fun and helping them polish their product and reaching out to their community and see what happens. That'll probably get someone a lot farther than making judgments about who "deserves" what treatment.
Unless...
<New thread: RENAME IT MOOSEKETEER OR FFXIV IS GOING TO FAIL.>
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