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Giving them more time would just have resulted in more incoherent package.
They where never going to get funding to make a 4 disc game, and spend 10-15 years on that.

And as seen in the Perfect Works mateiral, they would just have pushed the scope and made more incoherence and a lack of planning
Xenogears isn't unique in biting more than it could chew in its lifetime, its unique for being forced to finish swallowing it in bites without choking itself. You get a actual coherent narrative, unlike almost anything else from that era that ends in fucking post credit sequel baits.

Every single time a series or just a single game/movie/TV series end on a sequelbait
Remember that Xenoblade DID NOT end on a sequelbait. It instead ended on Disc2

Well, because of Disc2, they actually stuck the landing.
A of shittier games would have made Disc 1 into Game 1, get cancelled or fail to materialize game 3 or game 4 because gameplay isn't strong enough.

I've seen how big they wanted to make their games
Having hardware that allows them to be that big, means you run into all the scope issues.

How do you feel about the VA budget killing the game? Or the pacing?
Or being for the VN segments to overshadow all the cool buildings and ideas?