Why is Yoshi P turning his back on the playerbase that loves this game the most?

[Reynhart]

Why are we now 3 years later still catering to a group of people that are mostly come and go players?

Probably because those people are more numerous.

FFXIV accounts created are around 6 millions. Even considering FFXI and FFXIV 1.x players, we're really really far from that number. And of those 6 millions, we're not really sure of what people actually stayed to make the (I think) 700k players the game still has.

They should post a recent census of the number of Legacy accounts, and the number of SE account with an active FFXI and XIV subscription. They might be a minority.