The war against Garlemald as told in Doma was excellent. The war against Garlemald as told in Ala Mhigo was horrendous, because that region is as colorless as it is underdeveloped. Garlemald and by extent the Ascians represented a strong motivator in the story to get interested in. Now they're gone and while they've teased the void, who is to say that it won't suffer the same fate because the new target audience will "lose interest in it" in favor of more slice of life scenes straight of the FFXIV AU high school manga?