Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[Riardon]

While personally I think the bike is ugly, at least it looks better and more in-place in the game than oh, idk... ANYTHING FROM THE YOKAI WATCH EVENT

Ah you mean the spermzoid you can ride?

Back to the topic. Yes Yohsi's interview is a full disappointment.
He always evades the hot topics.
The graphics mainly the textures need a HQ pack and he still thinks having pixels during cutscenes and horrible ground/environment textures is acceptable.
He still avoids Ishgard housing despite so many people asking for it for years now non stop.
Character Creation requests also go unanswered.
The expansion will come in 2019 and the game is already dated in many aspects and so hard limited it hits its head on the walls of limitations.
At some point they need to improve the engine and their servers if they want this game to stay relevant and competitive.
The answer for the account wide items on Mog Station is also laughable. He implied is hard to do because technical issues. Yes more money in the pocket is a tech issue I guess.