A company is meant to be ambitious. They certainly threw enough money into FF14 from all financial records.

They simple put the wrong people in the wrong places without checks and balances.

Day to day operations on FF14 must have been a wreck to produce FF14. No one curbed stupid ideas, No one quality checked said bad ideas, no one crunched numbers to keep the time table on track, and no one tried to subject their work to peer review.

Sure they may have been a lot of brain draining (No matter how badly run the FF14 project was, some ideas and implementation were truly novice-grade-novice-lower then intern level)

But badly run projects have a way of magnifying faults.

Stupid ideas+letting stupid ideas flourish+lack of management on implementation of stupid ideas = Truly can not be saved stupidity.