Quote Originally Posted by ZephyrMenodora View Post
Patch 2.0 | Release Date: August 27, 2013
Patch 3.0 | Release Date: June 23, 2015 (Less than 2 years)
Patch 4.0 | Release Date: June 20, 2017 (2 years)
Patch 5.0 | Release Date: July 2, 2019 (2 years)
Patch 6.0 | Release Date: December 7, 2021 (2 years and 5 months)
Patch 7.0 | Release Date: Summer 2024 (2 years and X months)

So, while the summer months was their prior release dates, between Endwalker and 7.0 there is an entire extra year of waiting compared to 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0.
Necessary evil really. Covid and Endwalker threw things out of whack. If they had tried to release this past summer, I don't think it would have gone well. And a winter release would keep us in the bad timeline and not get things back to the normal summer release schedule.