If FFXIV is their most profitable product, why is the game so mistreated?

[ExESGO]

Because development takes time. More people doesn't mean quicker because diminishing returns exist. It's like asking why we don't get a new Star Wars film/series every week despite thousands of people working on it. At a certain point, more people doesn't speed it up anymore, without getting an AI to automate every single task in seconds but the FFXIV community is very resistant to that.

Adding to this, in this week's Mr. Happys Q&A he gave an interesting response when asked what the worst expansion for content was and he said it was Endwalker and not Dawntrail. That got me thinking that we do have more content coming, but people do want the content to come out sooner. Nothing wrong with that expectation and hope, but Im strongly against it as a person in a creative position for this expansion.

In my work experience you don't simply shift priorities to something and get something good out of it without sacrifice ie. bugs and a burnt-out dev team (which relate well to as I've had to be the fireman in multiple reshuffled major projects and I'm really tired physically and mentally). One of YoshiP's priorities has been the welfare of his staff, so getting people burnt out is a no go to maybe have a rushed development of say the exploration zone is a no go. I would imagine a lot of the devs have a daily schedule of half-day recoding the game (which isn't easy at all because systems have dependencies and those dependencies have their own) and half-day developing new systems/content already. Hopefully once the content is out it will be the wait.