Really it's a quick fix for the devs. All they had to do was add a dark backdrop or something to that effect. They're probably even finished with most of it since it's "Testing in Progress." For all the trolls questioning SE's priorities, they probably pulled 1 or 2 people out of the UI team for a couple days to redesign this. I don't understand why people act like Yoshi instructed the entire UI team to fix the UI visibility. The lot of them are probably working on the Materia System, Job System, achievements, and help menu interfaces.

You can check where SE's priorities are at here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...ent?order=desc