My only major critique with the post EW story and Im sure almost all of you will agree on this take.

Is for the writers to never try to do a single narrative for post patch content again. It gets stale and padded out to quickly and them using FFIV for its basis hurted more in the intrigue that previous post expansion plots had with having different arcs in its story that ties to the next expansion. This one had none of that and its just now towards the end where the writing finally decides to shift to focus on Dawntrail.