And? What is the excuse for wasting the budget animating the male Miqote skeleton again for a one-off scene instead of an action sequence? Void creatures fighting each other or something? Or better yet, fixing the ongoing catastrophe with Hrothgar?

You don't need to tell an expansion's worth of story, but you have to do *something.* Aside from the void scenes and learning about Vrtra's sister, barely anything of interest happened in this patch. It's never too early to introduce new goals for characters cast members (unless the goal was to provide the resulting lackluster beginning to Season 2 we ended up receiving) and what better point to introduce new cast members than say, the beginning?

Now if they are wanting to do something like having those new cast members come in with the next expansion's new classes or have them be a female Hrothgar only then is it understandable to hold off, but that cannot be the case for each potential new party member.