I am not very sorry, because I dont exactly agree with the "blame covid" for this choice.

World of Warcraft, to my knowledge is only seeing a minor delay in their expansion. (2 weeks?)

Another Square-Enix MMORPG didnt even miss a beat. (They do regular updates, events, campaigns, you name it.)

Meanwhile, FFXIV sees a 2 month delay plus they completely cut out an entire event?

So the two biggest comparisons to XIV, WoW and FFXI see little to no issues, but XIV takes a massive hit? Then on top of that, they choose not to do anything small, like adding in previous event items in-game or anything at all?

Seems a bit odd to me.