In hindsight, the signs for how ridiculous things would become next expansion were already there since the end of 5.3. Not gonna repeat the complaints about the non-sacrifice and how they handle Elidibus, but the question I haven't seen anyone ask, and it's quite shocking nobody did...

How the hell did nobody notice the stupid Fandaniel Towers being built? They weren't located out of sight. And judging from how ridiculously large the tower of Zot is, the construction of each tower would have taken long enough that the nations would have been aware of them long before their construction ended.
It takes a massive amount of suspension of disbelief not to see any problem there.