Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
I too would have stepped down if I had to deal with someone who flirts with NFTs at every possible opportunity despite the (alleged) customer base voicing extreme opposition towards them. Granted there is no way to know what exactly led up to this decision, but that is probably one of the reasons. Also a chance that perhaps he's been instructed to oversee FFXVII after FFXVI is done because no else has proven up to the task of steering the direction of the mainline series, with Nomura being too busy with FFVII Remake and Kingdom Hearts 4.
The OP linked the wrong board list, which may or may not have been intentional.

Quote Originally Posted by Izar_Chillen View Post
https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._seat/idqbbpq/

According to this post on the ff14 subreddit Yoshida was never a Director at Square Enix Holdings ( the division of SQE OPs linked PDF shopws) as is still on the board for SE Japan

https://www.jp.square-enix.com/compa..._Topics_JP.pdf
^^^

Izar pointed this out in an above post.