FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Exinias]

you can really feel in endwalker that they hamfisted everything to try to conclude in one expansion. we were supposed to get a garlemald expansion, but apparently it is better to rush and cobble together all plot threads at once when your game is very successful. i am very bitter about this still. why rush greatness.

Not even remotely true.