Quote Originally Posted by RenegadeInferno View Post

Apparently, something is in the works, but we've seen nothing of this, and I cannot give actual proof of this.
It's less "something is in the works" and more "we're trying to figure out how to remove programming hurdles that would prevent it from working as players want". At one point, YoshiP had even commented in a Live Letter about wishing for a miracle programmer to appear that could figure out a solution for them.

I hope they've at least contacted the WoW technical team to see how their Group Finder and LFR matching work. WoW's method probably wouldn't work for FFXIV but it might offer some inspiration for a solution.