Daniel, your main issue seems to be the use of the words "mistake" or "mistranslation," because you're so emotionally invested in the name "Aeris" that it is impossible it could be wrong. But you have absolutely no evidence to back up your arguments besides your imaginary version of how the game was developed (i.e., arguing that if it was a mistake, they would have fixed it earlier), whereas we have actual comments from the game's developers and those who fixed Aerith's name in Kingdom Hearts.

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The only way it was a mistranslation is if they actually explicitly told the head of the team translating the game that it should be Aerith and he ignored them completely over and over again. My belief? Nobody told anyone. When everyone checked over the translation, and I am assuming they look at character names, nobody complained. Or perhaps it was Aerith originally and they did complain? You can't mistranslate when you're the person that Square-Enix put in charge of inventing the translation and don't have any instruction on how to translate certain names.
Do you even read what you write? This is more made-up history. You have zero clue if any of this actually happened. And your assertion that it is not even possible for the name to be a mistranslation unless the translator was told it was wrong is hilariously arbitrary and pretty much eliminates the concept of mistranslations entirely. You also blissfully dismiss the fact that apparently her original name in FFVII actually was Aerith, making "Aeris" an even more obvious mistake.

This is about as bad as arguing with people who refuse to accept evolution: the entire weight of evidence is pretty firmly on one side.

A fine tooth and comb!?
I'm just going to leave this here.