Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
We already saw the Sharlayan colony in Heavensward and it had the same architecture we see in Endwalker, which would have been to be expected.
Yes, but the comparison (being made before we saw Old Sharlayan in Endwalker) would have been, at the time, Sharlayan architecture as observed in Idyllshire and the Gubal Library.

The suggestion, as I recall it, was that Anamnesis and Idyllshire share similar architecture style and the colour scheme of white marble with gold and green accents. It wasn't a theory about what Old Sharlayan would look like, but and observation based on what we already knew. So hypothetically if that observation had significance, the resemblance between those two would not have any direct bearing on whether or not Old Sharlayan looks the same as Idyllshire, because of course those are likely to resemble each other. But at the same time it would strengthen the theme of all Sharlayan architecture echoing a style used by the Ancients.

I feel like you are missing my point. I am not talking about what we know now; I am talking about what we speculated back then.