Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
xD Yes, let’s cite the one cannibal island with a barely contacted tribe as the example for what most of the world actually looks like. I was hoping you'd use this as an example just so people see how far you need to go to make things make sense in FFXIV.
Okay so better examples - Amish communities literally live “next door” and are pretty much exposed to our world, yet they didn’t give up on their style of living.
While anticlimactic another example would be a fax - while we have much better technology right now, there are still countries that use them widely eg. Japan.

Quote Originally Posted by Ath192 View Post
We have started delivery quests to rebuild an obsolete train. It is unrealistic to think Turalli engineers would not realize this and begin analyzing Solution 9 for the most efficient mode of transportation to build next. From day 1 of contact.
Studying Solution Nine technology isn’t an activity for one night, it may take them years to understand it and the train could have been fixed now because that’s the technology they know or already studied prior to solution nine appearance. There is also the mentality of we don’t need it, which makes technological changes harder even in real world (a real life example would be my parents neighborhood that wasn’t connected to fiber internet until december 2023 (!) due to people claiming they have good internet (no) and don’t need a new one)

I don’t know where you come from and how fast your country adopts to new technologies but i can assure you it’s not happening overnight as you imagine