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

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There's a litany of longstanding problems that many players like myself and the OP have been stating for years. Due to the massive white knighting and toxic positivity in the ff14 community however its only now just become apparent to a lot of players because Dps players and housing, two big playerbase segments got struck at once.

The game has already seen its biggest player count drop off post patch at the end of 6.0, given how lackluster this expansion and first patch is so far.

6.2 is shaping up to be a make or break point for a lot of players according to their roadmap since it will be a test of the devs attention to dps players feedback (since they ignore healers routinely and are now putting trusts in lower levels to mask the lack of healers) and how much effort they are putting into the midcore crowd that is continuously left shafted

They cant chase new players forever. Yoshida and the rest of the devs need to seriously course correct on so many issues

-pve job design especially healers
-housing
-hrothgar and viera. Modders are doing better within 30 minutes
-Battle content design. Difficulty needs to be upped across the board
-Lack of good tutorials for jobs
-clear 2 way communication with the playerbase
-endgame reward systems
-Gear design
-QA in general

While improving the early game experience is a good thing, its not when it removes core components like Aiatar teaching tanks how to position bosses.
Its certainly not a good thing when it comes at the direct expense of veteran players who continuously have to suffer braindead job design

I've unsubbed for a few weeks now and my sub runs out soon. Unless 6.2 shapes up to be good, then thats it for me until they learn their lessons.
I've having much more fun in monster hunter, elden ring and pso2 atm. Support players like myself are much more welcome in those games

Edit: in case folks are wondering, the straw for me was when yoshida replied to my question with "go play ultimate" and ignored teh second half of it
If he cant be arsed to put effort into answering my question, then I cant be arsed to pay my sub

its been an interesting 10 years since ARR beta. Late hw was the peak and its been a slow decline since