While WoW has been a catastrophe, especially during SL with the whole frat boy scandal, they've always had the big Activision/CoD money behind them and now Microsoft as well. Meanwhile, Square has been underperforming for multiple years, even when it comes to their well-received games like FF7R, let alone flops like Forspoken.

I think it's fair to say that as long as SE is around, so will FF14 - their flagship property. However, if SE were to go down, it's lights out. Unfortunately, it is fair to be at least slightly worried, when even their best ongoing property underperforms review-wise and hasn't had any innovation in multiple expansions.