Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
It's absolutely the case. They needed to reassure people that an actual story was to be found beyond the initial "vacation" premise.
I feel like they could've done this more subtly by having a cryptic aside with the mysterious girl (Who I really get the impression is the actual villain of DT) at the end of 6.55 that suggests there's something brewing under the outwardly shallow premise of DT.

They've had similar moments at the end of all the prior expansions and I don't think the story "starting fresh" was any reason to exclude such.