Do you think they will calm down about the amount of unnecessary dialogues?

[CCheshire]

Not really. I know others have joked FFXIV is a VN with some action parts and DF, but it's true.

The new expansions are fairly rigid, so they need to add some padding, like the intro of DT had 4-5 hours of just talking and doing some minor fetch quests and hitting 2-3 mobs in between the time we got there.

[Raikai]

Now don't get me wrong, I do love reading lore and eating it like it's a mukbang.

But the (bad) habit of dragging and dragging and dragging words to express a simple idea is such a frustration to me. And before anyone else says "It's like that for every FF", is a complete liar.

I'm a huge fan of the franchise, played them all, and never ever felt it was a slog to read. From FFI to VI, everything goes smoothly, fluids. From VII to X, it's all big show non-stop action with some little breathing moments that take maybe 20 text boxes to explain what is going on etc etc..

Up until XVI, which surprisingly was made by some of the same team as XIV if I'm not mistaken? It was a pain, horrible sidequests, big show intro but everything else is your typical XIV pacing. Why don't they say right away they love visual novels and want to make a proper one?

I have nothing against VN genre, but the feeling of playing MSQ while knowing you're going to read such boring dialogues because "Machinations" OST starts playing, when you exactly know what NPCs will talk about and how dialogues will conclude, is dreadful.

And now that DT got pretty bad reviews about it, is there any hope for them to actually learn from it and try to do their best about such slow pacing?

It doesn't help that 3 out of 8 Scions are scholar-type characters... And I'm counting Alisaie out of those but even she can fill in that niche sometimes. So in the end, the WoL and adjacent new characters are always the dumb side of the equation, because there's almost nothing people like G'raha, Y'shtola or Urianger can't give a technical answer, or at least point out to a clue for, and the exposition of those ideas surely can drag a bit sometimes.

I feel that's why I think the "show's running seasons" must retire the Scions and introduce new good (*cough* NOT Wuk Lamat *cough*) characters, or at the very least trim down the number of big brains in the group.

And you don't even need to retire them for good - XIV has a bunch of potential side stories they can be part of.

A new Alliance Raid taking place in a reflection? Perfect for Y'shtola.
Return of the Trial series taking place in Corvus? That's G'raha's business.
New Deep Dungeon delving into the deeps of an abandoned Garlean laboratory facility? Call in the twins, since they're involved with the people there.