4-month patch cycle was a lie. It's almost 4.5 months now.

[Rufalus]

Outside of very few exceptions they are not making any hats or helmets for Hrothgar or Viera, so I ask you, where is this extra work on equipment coming from when everything is made for the exact same races we've had since Heavensward?[/HB]

At the very least doubling the number of jobs since the game launched means more weapon types to support each patch. I haven't gone and counted patch volume myself to check that total unique designs is going up, just repeating what they said. They need permission just to any small objects, they make 3D modelling resource cost sound very burdensome. I vaguely remember a dev story about adding some little decorative knife to a main scenario quest or something.

[Absurdity]

At the very least doubling the number of jobs since the game launched means more weapon types to support each patch. I haven't gone and counted patch volume myself to check that total unique designs is going up, just repeating what they said. They need permission just to any small objects, they make 3D modelling resource cost sound very burdensome. I vaguely remember a dev story about adding some little decorative knife to a main scenario quest or something.

Sure the new jobs do require a lot more initial work and more work every time they implement new weapons, which is why we already see them not make any weapons for previous content.

But those aren't what we originally talked about and they seem quite happy to keep adding more and more jobs to their own detriment (and the detriment of the 4 people responsible for designing the job gameplay) every expansion.
If it's really that much extra work then maybe they should just...idk, stop adding 2 new jobs every 2 years? But we all know they won't, because new sparkly particle effects sell pre-orders.