Quote Originally Posted by aloneatsea View Post
I'm not sure if this is true or not, so take it with a grain of salt, but I remember reading about an interview with Naoki Yoshida where he mused over how he thought the game might become boring if everything was moved to a two-minute window -- sometime in the SHB era? Endwalker still made the changes it did, though, and Ninja wasn't allowed to escape unscathed.
Someone provided me with it on Reddit, I'd love to know what changed between the media tour and EW release.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXkyq_yUMjI&t=607s