The new Nomura?

[Kazhar]

I would say Shadowbringer was mostly great, gameplay did start taking on a downwards trend there but the writing was top tier. Too bad Ishikawa apparently is leaving the writing team...

To write FFXVII, maybe. Her sudden promotion follows the same pattern as Maehiro, when they started the pre-production of FFXVI.
Seems like they're mostly using XIV to train their future talents.

(Personally I'm hoping XVII won't be CBU3 at all, but the relative success of XVI might have sealed the deal already)