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Maintenance Mode" doesn't inherently mean it's end of life. It just means it's in a state where no major changes will be occurring. Major Development is slowed so that the main team can focus elsewhere without incident.
The product can be picked up at any point after the fact for growth prioritization. Just as XI is in Maintenance Mode, it could be at some point expanded on with priority. But that's unlikely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maintenance_mode
In the world of software development, maintenance mode refers to a point in a computer program's life when it has reached all of its goals and is generally considered to be "complete" and bug-free.
https://www.gameinformer.com/feature...d-ff16-isnt-as
Anyway, I'm not saying it's in full Maintenance Mode, but it's definitely in a "
Don't make any big decisions" mode. Because we know Yoshi can't 100% focus on both. We kinda have to live with that fact.
We've basically been stuck in the 'Stable Version' of XIV for the past 3 years. lol
As opposed to WoW, who's been making some pretty bold core game-loop changes.