Originally Posted by
CuteBucket
When I thought they were delaying patches to provide the team a couple more weeks of time to polish things up, I was all for it.
But enough time has passed to show me, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that is not what they are doing at all.
Why are patches taking longer and longer? Simple. Because there's less staff. They'll never come out at say that, but it's the most logical explanation. Either staff as been laid off or moved to work on other projects or both. So FFXIV throughout Endwalker was giving us less content over a longer time span. The delay of 5.3 when Covid hit the world was understandable. But it's like they took that goodwill for that one moment in time and then went "oh, we can just take longer and give them less and it'll be fine."