I don't understand how some people bring Ultimate content as something that lasts for a patch, when they see complaints about the lack of content in the game. Only ~5% of the player base is doing these fights. So the other people paying for their subs don't deserve content? Is it wise to make "50% of the content" to less than 10% of your player base?

All the casual/midcore community needs is in the game already, from other expansions. Release the relic(with long steps, not the EW ones) + field operations in the X.15 patch, no later than that. Unfortunately, with the current direction FFXIV is taking, developers will probably do the opposite: delay content even more, while making it more predictable and less grindy.