The Programming of FFXIV? [somewhat lengthy]

[Vafilor]

As I said I could imagine things arent commented correctly, apart from that I couldnt imagine it would be much more cryptic.

Also very few games design the menus to be edited, unless the UI is customisable, for most if the menu gets changed you will need to alter the borders of the menu and possibly change the font size or it would look broken, if the menus were made with expansion in mind the only thing they can use is blanks in the menus which looks really bad, so they just decide to re-size the borders instaid if they need to change the menus atall.

Sorry if the last paragraph was hard to read.

Maybe its the comments.

I think I'm getting my point across poorly. Let me try something else.

First example is for those with programming experience.

If you've ever programmed, you realize there is a difference between Visual C, C++, C#, Java, HTML, and Assembly.
It is much easier to write something in HTML or Visual C than it is in C++ or Java, or certainly Assembly. However, if written properly, good code is easy to maintain, understand, and modify.
My question is if they didn't do that. Did they, instead of making it easy on themselves, they wrote it very cryptically. So its more akin to writing in Assembly rather than C++. And does that contribute to longer times for fixes/additions?

To Those without programming experience.

You can make pancakes buying the batter pre-made from a store. Its easy and convenient.
Or you can make your own batter. Not so hard, but more time consuming.
Did SE go out and make their own batter, and do that for each new pancake meal?

Hopefully that clarifies it... now I want pancakes...

@ Delsus
As for your comment about the UI. Not necessarily. They don't have to leave blanks. A good class would be designed so that its not hard to add a new menu sub-option, it just appends, no need for a graphical holding place. They can just add it as a subcomponent. Its just a button that relays messages, nothing intensely hard.

[Chezen]

To Those without programming experience.

You can make pancakes buying the batter pre-made from a store. Its easy and convenient.
Or you can make your own batter. Not so hard, but more time consuming.
Did SE go out and make their own batter, and do that for each new pancake meal?

Hopefully that clarifies it... now I want pancakes...

Lol, well they wrote their own graphics software so it's possible, but I doubt anyone here is going to know. I guess you mean this is a question for the devs?

Gonna go make pancakes now...