To put this in perspective WoW just had the longest gap between release of an expansion and its x.1 patch. 218 days between the expansion release and patch 9.1. It's creating a bit of dissatisfaction over there also.

I think we're underestimating the effects of Covid on these large development teams. I hope we can all be understanding of not just FFXIV devs, but all the devs working through this very trying period