Quote Originally Posted by Voidmage View Post
I know you don’t mean it like that but… shouldn’t this game want to be better than the competition?
I don't think it's a matter of being better. Let's say they added what you suggested about racing. Adding the chocobo racing to the DF was a QoL change. Let's be real and not even pretend that people wouldn't be asking for this be racing to be added as well to DF. So they add it to DF, and thus no need to go S9 since I can queue for it anywhere.

The shop for dying your mount? Gonna be clamoring for that to be available almost everywhere as well.

I'm not sure how long you've been around, but we actually had exactly this situation where old hubs were used in later expansions. Mor Dhona was used (and still used) for currency exchanges. Instead of having Scrip stuff tied to specific expansions, they added representatives almost everywhere because there was QoL changes requested specifically because people didn't want to have to keep going back to old places.

So to make a long story longer, there used to be reasons to go back to old hubs, but based on player feedback for QoL improvements, it seems they've made a design decision to no longer need hubs once we've moved onto a new expansion.