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

[Akiudo]

All I know is I've been playing this game since the closed beta of 2.0, and the forums have never changed.

Every major patch, every expansion, given a few weeks someone will come along and herald the end.
The game is dying, it's over, FFXIV is finished!

the sad part is that it actually drowns out usefull feedback, it isn't like the developers are without errors, or that community input is a bad thing, far from it, but every single good idea someone might have gets washed up in the sea of complaints that are honestly nothing but thinly veiled personal attacks on the developers.