Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
I agree. EW was absolutely fantastic up until Zodiark. I found it to be S class story telling. Then it just fell off of a cliff and it became far too rushed. EW was probably two to three expansions worth of story shoved in not just one expansion, but a single patch of that expansion. I get that we were warned, and they wanted to move past the Hydealyn/Zodiark conflict, but that doesn't change that it was a poor decision. Zodiark had been hyped since ARR, and should have been the final boss of this expansion, not friggin Zeromus.
According to an interview, the original plan was a Garlemald-focused expansion, with Anima as the final boss. Presumably Zodiark would've been the 6.3 trial, and the next two patches would've built up the Final Days, followed by 7.0 being the rest of Endwalker.