[imtringued]

You have to choose one way or another.

Either you argue that the job requires you to stay in another country and the stay is always temporary and there you would not focus on any given language since you're going to leave before you reach any level of proficiency

or you want to stay in the country because you like it and therefore learn the language.

You cannot cherry pick the option where you have your cake and eat it too.

It is illogical to demand permanent residency for a temporary stay that is short enough to not bother learning the language.

[Dylan16807]

This argument makes sense if learning the language is the default and you require an excuse to get out of it. But I don't think that's true. If you don't want to learn, that's not a big deal. There's no cherry picking involved. Learning the language isn't inherently tied to working somewhere. It's tied to citizenship but this isn't citizenship.

In other words, yes it's illogical to argue that a stay is short and long at the same time but who declared that learning the language is an inherent part of long stays?