Graha Voice Actor Change?

[KiraRavens]

Don't get me wrong, I get that a potential recast for a beloved character is something that can be disheartening.

But also I feel I've gotta urge a lot of you to tone it down a bit. Analysing every facet of this guy's life in a bid to prove it's not because he's busy is a dangerously high level of obsession, well into the territory of being parasocial. Same with clamouring for a response from SE when they are, unfortunately, under no obligation to give any at all. As for the thing about how he's not taking questions about XIV, that's pretty common? Busy guy possibly under an NDA doesn't want to engage with a site that routinely farms drama for clicks, wowee.

Finally, voice lines aren't recorded the literal day of the patch. We've no idea how far back this was recorded, the conditions and so on.

I don't think that looking for reasons as to what could have caused a voice actor change in a game when all parties involved remain silent is even remotely the same as being "parasocial" with the VA - which is the feeling of somehow being intimately connected to a person who doesn't even know you.

No one here claims they know Jonathan Bailey.
No one here feels any sort of intimate connection to him or claims knowledge of his personal life.
Everything discussed in here is based on public knowledge/timelines and things he has publicly said in interviews, and it's being discussed with the sole intention of gaining an idea about what could be the reason for the different voice in 7.4.
People have even stressed multiple times that there's a degree of doubt regarding his previous statements exactly because we don't know him and can only assume in good faith that he indeed meant what he said.

The people here aren't obsessed with JB at all.
We are a bunch of people who are worried our gaming experience might significantly change and who came here looking for reasons to believe that won't happen after all.