All these examples are also introducing new lore and expand on the history of the world in addition to the current plot.

What interests me about the tempering cure is how much of a history of research had already existed prior to our solving the riddle so to speak, cracking the nut so to speak, breaking the dam! I mean every one of those singular events like the invention of penicillin or Darwin's Origin of Species or whatever, fall of the Berlin wall, they all feel pretty big like a paradigm shift but there's always a long history, an accumulation of individual events that made them possible. And I guess with the Tempring cure it felt pretty isolated, not like we stand on the shoulders of giants and now managed to finish someone else's work but like

Wait

Wasn't there this Allagan dude who literally found the solution thousands of years ago and we rediscovered that lore in the game? I mean it sounds like an asspull, but it was pretty clever of our heroes to check the archives and it wasn't exactly easy, wasn't there like this Artificial Intelligence device involved by the Garlond Ironworks that had to decipher some code that prevented access or something? I mean it does make sense we could make it, plus we had a catboy with the blood of the royal family. I still feel there should have been some more recent attempts to solve this issue tho. It did feel like a riddle suspiciously suited for exactly our set of talents if you catch my drift.