It's obvious that Blizzard has crippling managerial problems, as for the past several years they've proven incapable of releasing games.
- HotS was put into maintenance mode.
- Titan languished in development hell for years and years until Overwatch was salvaged out of it.
- D3's second expansion was cancelled.
- D4 is in development hell and it's director has been sacrificed
- OW2 is in development hell and it's director left
- Blizzard's incubation unit hasn't released anything.
- All other Blizzard games are outsourced to mixed results (SC1 remaster being decent, WC3 Reforged being neglected by Blizzard, rushed, and given too little budget, Diablo Immortal is in development hell).
- WoW dev team took 7 months to release a barebones content patch.
The last year and a half of WoW has been brutal. In the span of 20 months, Blizzard has only managed to 1. release the most barebones expansion in the history of the game (only 4 questing zones, no post game questing content, no reputation storylines, only 1 raid at launch, no side activities like brawlers guild/scenarios/island expeditions/warfronts), and 2. release one of the most barebones content patches in the history of the game.
I doubt Blizzard is going to be able to put out another content patch before FFXIV 6.1 hits. At this rate, I wonder if WoW 10.0 will be able to come out before FFXIV 7.0 comes out. If there is a WoW 9.3 then there is no way they'll beat that deadline.