Is the game becoming too metaphysical for its own good?

[Kazrah]

The crossovers bleeding into the setting,
Characters shedding names and personalities (yda and lyse, and now y’shtola and matoya),
Whole zones from ffxii and now nier being shoehorned in,
The disjointed nature of the trailer,
The empire being an extension of the Ascians,
And even us in our newfound employment,

Crossovers boost sales for both parties involved (and FFXV will be nowhere near as bad of a crossover as Yo-Kai Watch being in the game),
Lyse more or less had a decent enough excuse to return to her true identity (and we don't know enough about y'shtola and matoya to make any judgment calls),
Rabanastre in XIV likely wouldn't be an exact equal to XII and still has yet to be adequately fleshed out,
We don't really have enough information between the Ascians and Garlemald,
And we won't exactly know how we make the jump until part 2 of the 4.5 main story comes out in 4.56.

In short, just wait. Everything will make more sense once we get to that new content.