The Lessons Not Learned.

[RukoBoshi]

I will agree that I rose an eyebrow when I heard in the Event that the Epic Saga would Conclude in 6.0.
Its like...wait really? Because it would definitely mean its being rushed, and they really wanna get us started into the next Saga.

And I still very much enjoyed EW Vanilla despite its flaws, but one of its glaring issues is it did feel like they tried to do to much all at once.
EW should have solely focused on ending the Saga, instead of just 6.0.
But, idk, I guess a whole expansion dedicated to starting anew might not have worked either. But maybe EW could have been the longest running Expansion with say....6.7 or 6.8 being the ending. And then the last couple could have been to set us up.

IDK, we can sit here and talk about other things they Could have done, but its already done.

Yeah, i have a lot of issue with the idea of finishing the saga with Endwalker instead of making it two expansions.
I think it created a lot of problems, be it from pacing or story decisions. I wasn't the biggest fans of the theme of the expansion or how some characters were written either.

So i hope they decided to end it in 6.0 for a good reason, and that they have an interesting story in the work of 7.0 to justify this decision.

[Jojoya]

So i hope they decided to end it in 6.0 for a good reason, and that they have an interesting story in the work of 7.0 to justify this decision.

They did it because the length of the MSQ was getting far too long for players new to the game. It was a bit daunting to think there was so much story to have to play through to get caught up with friends.

Finishing the story arc allows them to create a new starting point for players to jump into the game without having to go through 90 levels of MSQ to catch up to long time players. Likely for the next couple of expansions, players will have a choice to start a new character at level 90 and the new story, or start from level 1 and the original ARR story.