The other issue as for why the XIV team seems to underperform despite being SE's favorite cash cow is because their own team got cannibalized to form the core of the FFXVI team. Yoshi P got pulled into that project as the producer, despite XIV being ongoing. He and the others are suffering from success not because they got big egos, but because their reward was twice as much work.

Even our favorite meme master MCK Fox has been absent from XIV for the last expac and a half because he's been pulled over to XVI. (Kate has done a great job though!)