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

[Minifie]

That's a strange conclusion to make when it's more likely than not that players who care enough about the game to not want it to crash and burn aren't in need of being weirdly defensive about literally every decision the development team happens to make.

As for enjoyable social gatherings, as someone who has interacted with him in-game and outside of it? You're quite right! He's genuinely one of the kindest players I've met in this game.

If the posts of certain contributors bother some of you so much, the ignore function exists for that reason. So long as people are abiding by the forum's code of conduct then there's no real justification to try and police the content and feedback of other players.

Constructive criticism helps with that, not having a whinge-train day and night. Let's look at the tags:

circlejerk cheese wine players causing drama more whining wow crowd crybabies bloodlust here we go again small indie company wow bad xiv good gcbtw devs incompetent

Yeah this thread goin' places!

Good to know your social circle is painfully small.

They don't bother me, you seem to be riling up though. I've already sent my feedback at my grievances to the FFXIV team, I wanted to throw in my suggestion that screaming "look at me I'm salty and mad and everyone pay attention to me" doesn't really solve anything. Very Karen-esque.

[Theodric]

Good to know your social circle is painfully small.

It's not and I think that's a rather weird conclusion to draw about someone you know nothing about...though it's clear that there's no reasoning with your ilk and you're clearly not here for an actual discussion so I'll bid you a good evening.

I wish you the best of luck working through whatever the OP's presence has induced within you.

How is the EW story controversial outside of this forum's echo chamber of people who wanted evil Hydaelyn?

I think that's a rather disingenuous take, especially since it's not hard to go and read through pre-Endwalker speculation threads to see that those who are 'against' Hydaelyn only ever wanted her to be presented as a morally grey figure and be called out for the atrocities she committed in the same way as how the Ascians were blamed for the atrocities that they committed.

Many of us don't just go 'OOH MOMMY' when we see a pretty female character get away with genocide, though. We just like logical consistency and the 'tHeMeS' of the story to be applied fairly across the board. I rather suspect that you're deliberately ignoring that the biggest criticism thread of the forum has a number of disillusioned Venat fans speaking out as well. Though in case you are acting in good faith, the thread in question was linked twice within this very thread...so maybe read the concerns raised before grabbing the wrong end of the stick?

[Minifie]

It's not and I think that's a rather weird conclusion to draw about someone you know nothing about...though it's clear that there's no reasoning with your ilk and you're clearly not here for an actual discussion so I'll bid you a good evening.

I wish you the best of luck working through whatever the OP's presence has induced within you.

Same to you, hopefully Yoshi-P nightmares stop and you can find solace in something else instead of being salty 24/7.