What is going on with Square Enix and the 14 team?

[Midareyukki]

Could be worse and be TF2 level of tone deafness.

So? Do you want it to stoop that low? If you don't, then this is why people are telling the devs "Yo, quality please".

It's specifically so it doesn't go any lower. It's specifically so that the game doesn't end in a flaccid, flabby shadow of what it was and could have been.