Stop comparing FFXIV's situation to WoW. Shadowlands was in development for a full year and a half before Covid where EW has been in development, as far as we can tell, through it. Shadowlands, even with its head start, still had to be pushed back. It's still sustaining cuts, and will see bigger ones later on. WoW focuses on Raiding, so they are high priority. FFXIV does not. Different games with different challenges where they will focus on resources and dev time on different things.