Are the developers of XIV out of touch?

[BillyKaplan]

For example, storage space and a proper Retainer management system are two problems that are very difficult to resolve for X Y and Z but... pay us $5/mo for a mobile app that we're releasing soon, and voila!

While frustrating in light of everything else, those two things are what actually makes sense to me. It's all assumptions, granted, but what if that particular retainer is stored not on the regular servers like everything else, but dedicated storage? Then the fee makes sense because it's space not funded by the base subscription (I said it made sense to me, not that I supported it).
As for the retainer management issues, this shows the problem isn't with the infrastructure but with the specific implementation in the game. I'm not defending this being locked behind a paywall, mind, just that I get why when they made something new from the ground up instead of however the in-game retainer system works, that a lot of limitations were solved. Now if they can be bothered to put that in-game and it'll be lovely.

Getting annoyed at the horrible slog we created with 2.x content? We feel you, but really, it's just too much work to redesign it - so we'll sell you a Jump Potion instead.

That wasn't Yoshida's answer at all in E3. And while it's more of the "please look forward to it", I was honestly expecting him to point to the Jump Potions, not say that they're actually working on it.

[Remedi]

That wasn't Yoshida's answer at all in E3. And while it's more of the "please look forward to it", I was honestly expecting him to point to the Jump Potions, not say that they're actually working on it.

Ye I think he said that they have a plan panned out but it'll take this, that was interesting to say the least, maybe a slight rework of the old work will come eventually too I suppose