*Spoilers* Questions about Shadowbringers

[Iscah]

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That's adding complexity and multiple timelines that have not been hinted and do not need to be there. I can't see the point in inventing other timelines where things happen in different orders and then immediately "throwing them out" so we're left with the one timeline that we have already.

The Alexander quests imply that we are on a single timeline, and the instability caused by time travel in that story had to be resolved to keep history on the right course.

Doing CT after Shadowbringers doesn't work. It can't happen then. We're either too busy dying in the Eighth Calamity to go exploring Allagan ruins on our day off from saving the world, or we've escaped the timeline that leads to the dark future - in which case it's "too late" to set up the events of CT that need to happen so G'raha is in the tower in that timeline by the time the Eighth Calamity happens, so he can be let out of it afterwards.

Also, setting CT after Shadowbringers would mean that we have not directly met the G'raha who becomes the Exarch. He met the other version of us in the other timeline after the split, but not "us". From a storytelling perspective, that shouldn't happen.

And as I said before, it affects other characters' continuity. You can't put the Omega story before Crystal Tower for Cid and Nero. You can't have Binding Coil take place after Alisaie joins the Scions in post-Heavenward. You can't interact with Estinien the pre-Heavensward Azure Dragoon any time after starting Heavensward, but the Lv30-50 DRG quest have him there anyway. These events are fixed in time, and you're just stepping back into that part of the story to play them.