There has not been a single major patch without a critical issue since Endwalker.

[Jason_Ashford]

Ill add into this and offer another view.

They release more content per patch than most MMO's release in an entire expansion.
its a big drain on a development team that had half its workforce shipped off to FF16 for a fair chuck of time.

allow me to offer another view as well.

every time something even slightly goes wrong these threads pop up screaming about how this is it, *this* is the update that proves that the devs don't care anymore and ff14 is going to start sucking as bad as WoW because obviously they are going to stop communicating, put the cash shop in game, the story is going to shite, etc.

i don't know if they are just suffering from PTSD after having dealt with Blizzard for so long, but it is getting extremely annoying when their kneejerk reaction is to cry that the game is ending because it's *so* obvious that the devs dont care anymore. smh.