Does Turn 10 not care as much about FO7 compared to FOH4?
FOH4 is continuing to get updates and FO7 ended updates.
FOH4 gets Toyota cars but FO7 didn’t.
I believe I remember a while ago hearing something about Turn 10 saying they would continue to work on Forza 7 until the next Motorsports game is released. FO8 is still a long way away, and they’ve ended updates months ago.
There’s nothing unusual or preferential about the timeline to date: FH4 is continuing to get updates just as FM7 did at this point in its release history and FH4 is still 7 months away from the point at which FM7 received its last content update, nearly two years after it was released.
Licensing cars occurs with each game individually, and they were not able to come to an agreement with Toyota during FM7’s active development. What T10 announced was that they shifted the team over from FM7 to the next Motorsport project, which happened months before Toyota was added to FH4. With no more develop going on with FM7 it wouldn’t make sense to try create new license agreements for it.
Info about the next Motorsport project in development is available in the General Xbox discussion forum.
Sometimes it’s just better to have the devil you know so you can get your tunes and ffb, etc square for a while and not worry about a patch changing everything again.