I wasn't aware they were firm on the subject (I haven't looked it up), but that's good to know. However, I imagine the reason for them being firm on said subject is to avoid the risk of needing less retainers, which helps generate additional income since it's a paid service beyond the first two retainers. So restricting it to a room is more about the need for keeping additional retainers as a selling point.

As to your last point, that's the reason I suggested that it be a 'job' they can take, based on the reasoning of retainers being an important selling point. It would be to limit the other functions they can do, such as go on ventures to retrieve. Selling items would remain, since that would remain a function of potsworn. This would not lessen the need for retainers, but potentially increase them. And it makes sense from a lore perspective, if they're always there waiting for your every need, it would make sense that they can't be doing other things if they're going to do their job effectively.


It would be nice if they could just do that for existing retainers, but I feel taking that approach would just be shut down or not seen as appealing to Squeenix. It doesn't do anything to pad their pockets, just makes gameplay a bit less painful for those who would prefer not to clutter up inventory any time they want to craft something.