If I may I had always suspected Garlemald was the cut expansion premise (we know the original idea was to have the story conclude in 7.0, not 6.0) due to Stormblood being the black sheep of the family and how much a Garlemald expansion would be banking on stuff from that expansion's lore. I get the feeling after ShB they felt another Stormblood style war story would have killed the pacing. There could have additionally been some push to veer away from a war storyline due to real world events at that time.

Overall I feel EW was and still is a terribly paced mess of incomplete ideals when factoring in what came before it. I surely hope this expansion is just like this due to late changes and the next expansion is a bit more fleshed out. I admit my subscription at this point is to get an adorable space jellyfish and just in case auto demolition comes back as I have my own house and an FC house to save.