Preferences for a new world in 6.x, 7.x and beyond

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The fact that Yoshi-P dropped "time travel" and "other shards" as places we could go in the future terrifies me, lol. I don't actually want ever-bigger-and-better. I don't want to become a god. I want to explore the rest of my home and retire proud, lol.

Once upon a time I was all about a Wings of the Goddess expansion where we went back to the War of the Magi and did Campaign stuff and after Shadowbringers I'm nervous - like, "AT WHAT COST?" Would we end up with more unaddressed time shenanigans and SE retconning in how we, the Warrior of Light, actually inspired Amdapor to make sin eater statues by regaling them with stories of what the "opposite of voidesent" are while everyone slobbers all over The Coven to fill the void left by the Ascians? For better and worse, we've drifted a bit from the game I thought I was playing.

Anyroad, I think the first thing on the agenda for me would be the New World. Much like ARR was a metaphor for destroying FFXIV and saving it to be reborn, I think 7.0 can be a metaphor for A WHOLE NEW WORLD beyond Hydaleyn and Zodiark; this isn't the end.

But where I'm at right now, I do mislike time and shard travel when this world, the world we dedicated so much to, still has so much more to offer me, right now. Take me to Mamook. Show me the Whalaqee. Start an unjust war in the Caribbean and unleash the forsaken pirates of Limsa Lominsa on a new era of privateer opportunity. Let me see the ruins of Meracydia and fight the leftover things there to bring hope that it won't be a wasteland forever. Have a boomerang generation ship of Allagans come back and cross that oddity off the list. Show me the bizarre fusion of cermet and stone Garlemald made of the cities of Ilsabard. Show me the beast tribe homelands. Explain what what or who in the Seventh Hell Abalathia was. Let Matsuno-san break some more vases we'll have fun trying to glue back together in the third and final chapter of Ivalice. I'm holding out hope Purple Promyvion is under the lunar surface but if not I've still got that on my wish-list. If you still haven't gotten around to it with The Sound, let me finally fight whatever's under Silvertear Lake. Tell me what Mor Dhona means in Dragonspeak while we're at it. And let me into Ala Mhigo, for crying out loud.

There's a lot of our own world left to flesh out and sometimes I fear it just won't be seen as big enough or cool enough to retain subs so we'll just ignore it.