Am I the only one who thinks Zenos has long overstayed his welcome and needs to be perma-dead before 6.0 comes out? At this point I don't care where we go as long as Zenos is gone and we're onto something new. I feel like his story would have been much stronger if he never came back from the Royal Menagerie and that was it for him. Yostuyu's return from the grave was a nice surprise, but having both villains coming back after supposedly dying felt a little goofy and made it feel like our efforts weren't well rewarded. Zenos continuing to be doing Zenos things gets a little tiring for 2 expansions when he's not even that interesting of a character.

It would be nice if Zenos finally kicks the bucket in 5.5 and then we go to Garlemald to finish the fight in 6.0. 7.0 can be time for something completely different like Treasures of Aht Urghan was for FFXI. The preceding expansion, Chains of Promathia left with us killing god and finishing all the known story ties to the MSQ and ToAU sent us across the sea for a story that had almost no relation to the Crystal War and the Shadowlord and it was new and refreshing. Maybe we can have a vacation from Allagans, Ascians, and Garleans and new players could start this story directly after ARR and won't necessarily need to go through the row of expansions or pay for a skip.