More budget to voice acting?

[Edax]

I admit I prefered Alphinaud's original ARR actor.)

Completely disagree. Some of the voices were terrible, sure (especially Alphinaud)

I know it's subjective, but to me it seemed like the original voice actors were badly directed. They seemed to stumble over the olde English lines and it often felt like the characters weren't in the same room when having a conversation. For me, a lot of the original scion cutscenes in the waking sands were pretty cringy, not because of any emotional scenes, but just because they delivered so much exposition so unnaturally.