The developers want to keep leveling dungeons and other Dawntrail content populated one year after the expansion’s release, yet they have not given the community any new leveling methods.

Following the Stormblood timeline, we should be at the .25 patch by now. Instead, we have to wait an extra month to unlock Savage loot and two extra months to get an Operations Field.

At this pace, we’ll be waiting five extra months for the deep dungeon. But in their heads, as long as everything follows FFXIV’s strict formula and releases in the same patch, they think players aren’t actually waiting longer.