This content represents the medium artillery that is finally showing up to the battlefield, where in the past only light infantry has been deployed because they're the quickest to respond.

As far as the heavy artillery goes, we're almost there.
There appears to be progress on the battle system.
Yoshi-P seems optimistic about the job overhaul going on.
All the while those two things are coming out, companies seem to be kindof a big deal.
Even if they're not, more of this medium artillery will show up to the field until a REAL endgame of the vanilla release can be installed.
Then they'll create a levelling zone specific to beginners and midlevellers like they've talked about.

Then PS3 release.

Again, the road map for overhaul is there. They made good on their promise that medium-class content would be continuously added while big guns were still being made.

Plus retainers don't despawn when wards reset now.