This may not kill the game but it doesn't exactly put people at ease for what's to come either. "You'll all be back for Ninja" .. Why? So they can be disappointed by that too? Even if it does turn out to be the greatest thing in the world why are they gonna bother giving it a chance when something they've been waiting for (no matter how insignificant you may think it is) for a long time turned out like.. This..

Even if the amount of people who leave because of this seems negligible the game is still losing subscriptions and if this kind of thing keeps up it will continue to lose them. So no, this may not be the end of Eorzea but it wasn't just one thing that destroyed 1.0 either.