Quote Originally Posted by All_Nonsense View Post
They originally extended the dev cycle to give themselves more time to get the graphics update worked out.
That isn't true. They extended the dev cycle to give their staff a better work-life balance, after working extremely hard for over 10 years.

Avoiding burnout is very important to Yoshi-P. He makes sure they can switch roles and work on different things if they are getting burned out, and forces them to take breaks if they are overworking themselves (which is why they work on things without telling him out of passion sometimes).
QoL changes
Would like if there was lots of QoL. They have barely scratched the surface of little things they could improve.