The credits look like a lot more people have been hired since ARR, there has been more outsourcing and the liveletters and developer blogs talk of how the outsourcing is being done and what training new developers is like. The money from the mog station is reinvested into the game's development. I don't understand why people think money and resources are not going into the game.

Yoshi-P says that making the graphics too good would make developing fights and assets difficult, because the better the graphics the more work they are. He has a point.

https://youtu.be/emFem0PJdd0?t=1678 enable subtitles

More developers doesn't always mean more overall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns