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I was actually expecting Ultimecia to be the boss of this tier. Possibly Necron for next tier if they had followed the SB pattern. Eden gave away the FF8 reference, and if you know your FFIX lore then you know who the original final boss was supposed to be before he got moved behind some random wall of coral in Memoria. The problem there is that nobody likes Necron anyways, so maybe we might have gotten Trance Kuja as a tier boss. I was also noticing how the final boss of ShB looked very much like Soul Cage from the end of disc 2 in FFIX.

I mean I'm glad they aren't re-using the same SB pattern again because it was unique for its expansion and it's a good thing they're changing the format. Just not a fan of this primal format. Hopefully they can get the rest of the aether collection over with in one fight. Like Garuda, Ifrit, Shiva, and Ramuh all at once in a team and then move on with the Eden plot in a new direction. I wouldn't at all expect Ultimecia to be a final boss for Eden for two main reasons:

Kefka and Exdeath weren't final bosses of their expac. Tier bosses maybe, but final bosses usually have something to do with the in universe lore and aren't just cameo fights.

The Extreme already got used for that dungeon after ARR. They wasted it already and can't use it again without having the effect lost of it already being in the game.
XIV Hades is based in VII Hades, not IX Hades. I do think Necron could show up as part of the MSQ, but I don't exactly expect a ton of IX references in Eden. Considering Gaia seems to be a latent Ascian and her artwork resembles Nomura's old art of Edea, I'll be very surprised if she doesn't end up becoming something like Ultimecia, doubly so considering how Griever came into being and what the WoL is currently doing in the storyline.