I thought Dawntrail was going to be a grand adventure surrounded by friends

[Sonoskay]

As someone who has finished the MSQ, you're wrong. I wont spoil it but functionally everything resolved by the end of the story no setup for anything a terribly tied ribbon on the package that is this expac.

This is ARR if ARR was us following around the chocobo carriage NPC while he spoke to the scions, did everything, and then at the end of that version of ARR he defeated all the Ascians and Zodiark and endsinger.

Stormblood didn't really have a whole lot left to turn into magic. It wasn't till 4.1 they started laying the seeds for what would be SHB. I think the main point of the expac might have been to give the WoL ties to tural, and establish a new character for future plot lines. In an interview with Jesse cox, Yoshi P acknowledged they don't have any Concrete story plans yet and are going to gauge how the player base responds to Dawntrail MSQ. Getting the setting established Seemed to be the priority rather than giving players loose plot threads to speculate on.

[SirShady]

Stormblood didn't really have a whole lot left to turn into magic. It wasn't till 4.1 they started laying the seeds for what would be SHB. I think the main point of the expac might have been to give the WoL ties to tural, and establish a new character for future plot lines. In an interview with Jesse cox, Yoshi P acknowledged they don't have any Concrete story plans yet and are going to gauge how the player base responds to Dawntrail MSQ. Getting the setting established Seemed to be the priority rather than giving players loose plot threads to speculate on.

God this should be a real awakening for them then. I really hope they don't go with the plot threads at the end of Dawntrail. I have no faith in them being able to use them in a coherent and interesting way after seeing how they were thrown into the last 10% of the plot.