Glamours: Re-work the entire system.

[Silverbane]

I just don't understand how they ... still do not have enough people working for them to work on and improve all parts of FFXIV without sacrificing content :/

Have you read the classic "The Mythical Man-Month" -- just for starters?

Even on the relatively modest-sized SW dev teams (compared to FFXIV's dev team) I've been in, adding more people invariably decreased per-person productivity, because of intra-team communication issues that inevitably arise.

Add to that how difficult it is to hire competent coders these days, and how a bad coder can actually make a substantial negative contribution (because other people have to wait for them to get their part done and then hunt down the bugs they introduce), and it is clear that growing the dev team may not be a practical option. And then there's the problem of office drama -- the more people in the office, the more likely it is the drama llama will pay a visit and screw things up.

So in my professional experience (as someone who has been in and managed SW dev teams), with the exception of government contracts where creating more jobs in someone's district is the real goal, a SW dev team should be as small as can get the job done on time without burning out. And growing the team because of feature creep create a substantial risk of project suicide.