If everyone wishes some more traction on this issue, it may be easier for the Development Team to answer specific questions or comment on specific recommendations offered by us.

Q: What FFXIV game features utilize CPU processing power?
Q: What FFXIV game features utilize GPU processing power?

If the Development Team could answer those two specific questions, it would go along way to helping the player community understand and help themselves, as well as instill confidence in the community that the Development Team knows what is going on.

But I suspect there may be some secrecy on the part of the Development Team due to the possibility that there may currently be very exploitable code present in the game, and they would like to take care of it prior to commenting on it. I have no evidence of this. It is just a suspicion on my part.