This is getting ridiculous. (Endwalker MSQ and post MSQ spoilers)

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Except my argument in relation to the order is not that it matters for whether weapons are or aren't released for newer jobs, but rather the order with which they're released is indicative of something that doesn't necessarily have any formal standard for how and when they are released - Which was to highlight the point that it is at the bottom of their priorities and likely something that doesn't necessarily fit into their project management schedule.

Which is irrelevant to the case of three of the four I mention (Flamekissed, Moonlit, and Enspirited). The only one this works for is Zurvan, and even if you want to ask that they were mismanaged -- they have a year to make two need weapons for it, since it wasnt even released until 5.4 in the later half of Shadowbringers. However, for Suzaku - Tsukuyomi - Byakko: this doesnt matter at all, as all three were designed to be released in Shadowbringers.

My entire argument has always boiled down to them potentially not having enough time, and/or it just simply being a very low priority for them to develop new models for older trials when they are only considered a 'nice to have' - Sure they've historically done this in the past, arguable when those doing it potentially had more time to dedicate to it. With this in mind I don't really think there's anything valuable that can come out of this discussion

You do realize that all these weapons were released back in the expansion prior without the fancy particle effects -- and about 90% of the work is already finished before they even make these right?

Like Byakko's Katana and Byakko's Enspirited Katana are the same model. So you cannot say "time is some measure" here -- especially when the dev team has knowledge of what the next expac's jobs are going to be when they are developing weapons for them. Even if we want to mark it as low priority, it looks really bad for a company to do it once then just go "fuck it, thats it" until Hades as you release 3 other sets of weapons in the same expac. If its at the point where developing two new models for it on release is a strain, then thats very bad when the majority of the work is finished over a year and a half ago.