Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
The fact that they weren't future proofed is entirely on the shoulders of Yoshi-P. If he was actually in tune with feedback from the community and/or the game had a public test server then such issues would be identified well in advance and the game could be tweaked accordingly.

I'm pretty sure the reason we didn't get an exploration zone in Endwalker is entirely related to the fact that Yoshi-P is distracted by FFXVI. It remains to be seen how things fare once FFXVI finally releases. Though if Yoshi-P knew that 6.0 was going to coincide with a lull in content development then that just makes his decision to rush to the finale all the more bizarre.
Definitely starting to look like the whole "10 more years of FFXIV" was less an ambition of his and more of a demand passed down from the higher ranks in order to keep SE afloat. But now that nearly everything good or interesting about this game has been done away with, how on earth is anyone supposed to possibly deliver on 10 more years in a world left in the state Endwalker left it in and with content that only seems to get worse with time?