I’ve also been following the subsequent dragonsdiscourse among designers and armchair designers (hello!
This looks like Capcom trying to keep both groups happy.
Everybody’s going to absolutely loathe it, I suspect.

Capcom aren’t just making dragonsplague a little less virulent.
I guess that’ll help you weasel out signs of dragonplague.
Anyway, here’s Capcom’s rough update roadmap in full.

We all really like Dragon’s Dogma 2, launchtech troublesaside, and have myriad thoughts about it.