Creative Studio 3 is working on multiple projects at once.

[Azurarok]

I bet they totally hired more developers to take on these extra projects, right?

Not sure if this is sarcasm (sorry if so) but I'd expect the new hires to be the ones put on sustaining XIV while the veterans are the ones working on the new projects. It would better explain the disconnect between the devs and playerbase imo.

With how formulaic the patch process is I think it'd make more sense to train them through it, at least.