The game is already dying on its ass after Dawntrail, and the numbers prove it.
No Fan Fest announcement, no hype, nothing but silence.
You really think the current playerbase will stick around for another year of content droughts?
If 8.0 gets pushed to 2027, the game will be on life support. Expect even more job cuts at SE and a panicked "fix it" team to try and salvage the corpse of a game. It's already happening to the HD games.
Yoshi-P's golden child will be another forgotten WoW-killer, and the shills will finally have nothing left to defend.
SE will be a mobile game company and you'll get a chocobo race battle pass.