Most of my thoughts have been layed out in this thread or a few others

But to give my two cents, I Feel like one issue that is not heavily been talked about (as far as I can see anyway) is that Shadowbringers as noted goes for that moral/philosophical ambiguity, vs Endwalker going for 'this is the correct answer' at times, which results In a disconnect. (Along with how Endwalker makes or renders some parts of Shadowbringers a tad 'iffy' to say the least)

The former feels far more what Ishikawa does than the latter, and even Endwalker goes back and forth on this like with Alisaei noting that what could break some people could barely phase others In Ultima Thule. All of which makes me somewhat lean towards multiple writing ideas for venat OR Covid issues making polishing the writing a lot harder.