Things that should be changed or fixed already (because you haven't fixed it yet)

[BreathlessTao]

It's not really an excuse. There's a limit to how much data you can write per second and until we get a new standard, it's not going to see a big increase. Atm character data gets updated every 15 seconds in case of a server failure.

And that's where that train of thought should just derail for everyone with common sense. IT'S AN INSANELY MASSIVE RESOURCE HOG that is completely and utterly unnecessary. And it's not like there aren't ways to overcome it: let those special-to-craft items have a flag that triggers a save for that character; simply increase it to one minute (or three, it would still be actually sensible); kick those damn AFK characters who are logged in idle for 4-18 hours - just three I can think of at the moment.
It really is mind-boggling that every (second) suggestion gets shot down with "data limitations", and yet nobody seems to think of this one thing, when it obviously is a major contribution to the issue. It's a miracle that no server actually crashed from this incredible amount of writes so far. I have a feeling the change in lag/latency we would see with the easing up on that inventory backup would be so huge that the game would feel like it's on steroids for weeks before we got used to it.
In any case, risk or not, it has to be done. Because this endless flow of "can't do it because of data limitations" answers has already been exhausted and very old for ages. Or is it what we'll have to put up with for the lifetime of the game (it sure seems so right now)? Anyone thinks that's viable? Yeah, I didn't think so either. Things might be hard to do and the team might be small too - I accept those as well, but that doesn't mean those should be "reasons" for not making changes or adding new stuff either. Yet they also seem to be, which is just another annoying factor tbh. Especially when we're being directed to the cash shop / mog station to pay extra for so many things too. Especially when even with that, some major parts are still simply unavailable for us to enjoy COUGHhousingCOUGH.