No, and is quite sad considering how brilliant everything else arround it.
Since Stormblood i've been having issues with the directive/narrative, and now Shadowbringers does one of the worse things it could have possible done: bad multiverse/parallel universes. Omega was... Questionable enough. But Nordvrant is just a massive No.

Stormblood was too much, and the truly relevant side, Ala Mhigan resistance was underwhelming. Othard was good but couldn't develop well since it had to split with Ala Mhigo, it truly was a shameful decision, when i saw the trailer i whispered a soft: "why..."

Shadowbringers also, makes really no much sense to me... First, why so proud emet-selch would make his museum in a doomed reflection? makes absolutely zero sense, that is not even the REAL amarout, how is that the crystal tower is even in the first, and what about the others, how comes the Allagans do what only the unsundered can. All of ShB could have happend in the Source, instead of going to Nordvrant we could have visited either the New World or Meracydia, we know something stopped the allagans there, it was where the first primal was born, and i dare say what we see at the end of the amarout dungeon is the planet from the southern emisphere. Amarout should be in the source...

Second, is that ShB also pulls us away with that "prevent calamity" thing really out of nowhere, the narrative from Stormblood (when it was finally getting into what it was supposed to be as an expac thematically speaking...) and takes us away in what could be described only as an anime filler, if only we hadn't beat the main antagonist in a filler season in two rushed patches. I mean, we didn't even got Varis, we got kill stealed by side characters which aparently had a much better main scenario quest raiding the empire than us, is like the whole of the world paused. Feels so wrong.

In a perfect world... Heavensward would have seen the Sultana TRULY dead, Raubahn and not lyse leading a much more violent and dark revolution for Ala Mhigo with Stormblood being focused only in Ala Mhigo and the Southern Provinces, the 5.0 expansion could have been Othard, the opening of a proper two front war, the whole of ivallice linking into main scenario and the CURRENT persuit of the empire just starting, maybe 8th calamity ABOUT to happen now instead of being spoiled by a cat that saw like the whole seasons ahead of the anime and now thinks he can just make bad fan service with us. And now the 6.0 Expansion could be Shadowbringers proper, finally going after Elidibus, Zodiark, Maybe introduce emet-selch, honestly i don't care much for it as he came out of literal nowhere... Anyway, Fandaniel, yeah...

I really don't undertand the nature of Allagans, Ascians and the Crystal Tower by this point. The whole reflection things were fine till WE moved. I buy the calamities, everything, even preventing the 8th as a main quest... I don't know where this is heading.
Im just sad Hydrus is dead, and nothing ever progressed for Unukalhai.

So, who are the stronger here, the ascians or the allagans? Why is there a Crystal Tower in the first?

It would have even made more sense if there was a crystal tower on the southern emisphere instead of the first. Like piercing the core, maybe being literal ends of Hydaelyn. Anyway, i just feel like nothing in my encyclopedias makes any sense anymore than we can just go and create whatever we need using reflections, still a few arround ain't it?