Removal of loading screens

[Genz]

We don't have an official source on this but it is quite evident when you think about the 2.0 developement. The engine had to be cobbled together within an extremely tight timeframe, it needed to include some of the absolute disaster that was the 1.0 code because all the 1.0 characters with their 1.0 items had to be transferred to 2.0 (they did not wipe out everyone's character and made them start from scratch) and it had to run on the PS3, which had 256 MB of RAM.


Further evidence are the obvious technical limitations that we are already experiencing right now.

-They can't add more inventory space because it either breaks the game or takes way too much time investment to not break the game, so they have to redistribute our already existing inventory space in "creative ways" like the removal of belts.
-We can't have a glamour log because the engine can't handle it, we may not even get more space in the glamour dresser.
-Even expanding the Armoire seems to be a big task every time they add new event outfits and mogstation outfits can't be placed in the Armoire at all.
-Zones are quickly running out of memory space, someone already mentioned Kholusia and the fact that the Dwarf beasttribe had to be placed in another zone to not break the game.
-Damage and Health numbers are getting too big for the game to handle, hence the stat squish with Endwalker.

This looks like a coherent and convincing dump of info, but it's not.
2.0 didn't need to include anything from 1.0. The save of 1.0 characters doesn't impact anything, it's just a big pile of data in some format that can be converted in any other format to be used in any other game/engine.
Inventory expansion/addition of glamour log/glamour dresser expansion/Armoire expansion share the same difficulties, so it looks like there are a lot of problems but it's actually only one, and it's a most normal problem : increasing character data isn't an easy task, (every?) other MMO have had the same difficulties.
Damage/Stats squish isn't an engine/system failure, problem with big number is expected, just a lack of long-term vision.
And for all of these, the bottleneck are essentially server-side, so PS3 is off-topic. PS3 limitations are mainly for visual and UI, and the question is "how much discrepancies do we accept between platforms" (everyone got the same inventory, but PS3 didn't have the expanded view)

Probably not the most awesomely optimised mmo ever, but no need to invent problems either.

They had to import 1.0 characters, so there has to be code to make that work, at the very least.

Same thing as above : it's irrelevant.